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Tending the Commons

Ramp Suppers, Biodiversity, and the Integrity of "The Mountains"

by Mary Hufford

From Folklife Center News20, No. 4 (Fall 1998)


Biodiversity has been protected through the flourishing of cultural diversity. Utilizing indigenous knowledge systems, cultures have built decentralized economies and production systems that use and reproduce biodiversity. Monocultures, by contrast, which are produced and reproduced through centralized control, consume biodiversity. The Ramp House on Drew's Creek

Crafting Locality

The Easter Onion poem

Ramp Patches and the Commons of "The Mountains"

Reading the Cultural Landscape

Ramp Talk and the Cultural Landscape of Hazy Creek

Notes

 Captions Below
Image Captions from top to bottom:

1. Detail from Mabel Brown in the ramp patch behind her home. Lyntha Scott Eiler. 1997/04/20. Library of Congress American Folklife Center.

2. Detail from Ramp House, a community center, at the head of Drews Creek. Lyntha Scott Eiler. 1995/04/22. Library of Congress American Folklife Center.

For text caption, see Note 1.

Tending the Commons