The Edible Landscape of a Newfoundland Outport
This paper presents the remarkably edible landscape of Tilting, Fogo Island, Newfoundland. Tilting is a Cultural Landscape District (Historic Sites and Monuments Board) and a Registered Heritage District (Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador). Tilting has outstanding extant examples of v...
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cremerald:10.1108/ohi-02-2009-b0011 2024-06-09T07:44:08+00:00 The Edible Landscape of a Newfoundland Outport Mellin, Robert 2009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ohi-02-2009-b0011 https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/OHI-02-2009-B0011/full/xml https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/OHI-02-2009-B0011/full/html en eng Emerald https://www.emerald.com/insight/site-policies Open House International volume 34, issue 2, page 96-106 ISSN 0168-2601 2633-9838 journal-article 2009 cremerald https://doi.org/10.1108/ohi-02-2009-b0011 2024-05-15T13:23:31Z This paper presents the remarkably edible landscape of Tilting, Fogo Island, Newfoundland. Tilting is a Cultural Landscape District (Historic Sites and Monuments Board) and a Registered Heritage District (Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador). Tilting has outstanding extant examples of vernacular architecture relating to Newfoundland's inshore fishery, but Tilting was also a farming community despite its challenging sub-arctic climate and exposed North Atlantic coastal location. There was a delicate sustainable balance in all aspects of life and work in Tilting, as demonstrated through a resource-conserving inshore fishery and through finely tuned agricultural and animal husbandry practices. Tilting's landscape was “literally” edible in a way that is unusual for most rural North American communities today. Animals like cows, horses, sheep, goats, and chickens were free to roam and forage for food and fences were used to keep animals out of gardens and hay meadows. This paper documents this dynamic arrangement and situates local agricultural and animal husbandry practices in the context of other communities and regions in outport Newfoundland. It also describes the recent rural Newfoundland transition from a working landscape to a pleasure landscape. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Newfoundland North Atlantic Emerald Arctic Fogo ENVELOPE(-54.281,-54.281,49.717,49.717) Fogo Island ENVELOPE(-54.165,-54.165,49.667,49.667) Newfoundland Tilting ENVELOPE(-54.065,-54.065,49.700,49.700) Open House International 34 2 96 106 |
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This paper presents the remarkably edible landscape of Tilting, Fogo Island, Newfoundland. Tilting is a Cultural Landscape District (Historic Sites and Monuments Board) and a Registered Heritage District (Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador). Tilting has outstanding extant examples of vernacular architecture relating to Newfoundland's inshore fishery, but Tilting was also a farming community despite its challenging sub-arctic climate and exposed North Atlantic coastal location. There was a delicate sustainable balance in all aspects of life and work in Tilting, as demonstrated through a resource-conserving inshore fishery and through finely tuned agricultural and animal husbandry practices. Tilting's landscape was “literally” edible in a way that is unusual for most rural North American communities today. Animals like cows, horses, sheep, goats, and chickens were free to roam and forage for food and fences were used to keep animals out of gardens and hay meadows. This paper documents this dynamic arrangement and situates local agricultural and animal husbandry practices in the context of other communities and regions in outport Newfoundland. It also describes the recent rural Newfoundland transition from a working landscape to a pleasure landscape. |
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