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Edible Radio host and publisher of Edible Santa Fe, Kate Manchester, talks to Gary Nabhan.
My guest today is Gary Nabhan, he’s an ethnobotanist , and a Research Social Scientist at the SW Center at the U of Az. He’s also a writer, lecturer, food and farming advocate, rural lifeways folklorist, and conservationist. Gary is the founder of RAFT, Renewing American Food Traditions, and he’s here today to talk about his recent trip to the Gulf, and what we can all do to pitch in and help out our neighbors in the Gulf region.
We all understand how the oil spill in the Gulf affects the seafood industry, the countless families and individuals who count on the sea for their livelihoods. We’ve spent more time than we’ve wanted to in the last few months facing the devastation of our precious sea. But what about the longer-term impacts that affect not only the seafood industry, but farmers, market gardeners, gator hunters, crawfish harvesters, and sassafras foragers as well? It’s estimated that some of the rural parishes of the Gulf Coast have already lost five out of ten residents in their communities due to out-migration following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita; if the current closures of fisheries trigger further out-migration, then rare heirloom seeds, fruits, and tubers will be abandoned in gardens, orchards, and storage sheds without anyone to grow or eat them.
Links mentioned in this story:
www.garynabhan.com
RAFT
Chef's Collaborative (pdf)
Crescent City Farmers Market
White Boot Brigade
Adopt-a-Mirliton Project
Cultural Resource Institute of Acadiana
Southern Foodways Alliance
Catch Shares in Gulf of Mexico/Texas Program of Environmental Defense
Save Our Wetlands
Southern Seed Legacy
Pineywoods Cattle Registry and Breeders Association
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