"All Hands Be Together": Newfoundland Gardening

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  • John Omohundro State University of New York College, Potsdam

Abstract

Vegetable gardening persists in rural Newfoundland settlements as they undergo rapid technological, political and economic changes because gardening displays and perpetuates old values such as self-reliance, subsistence skills and family co-operation. Long-term research in northern Newfoundland has shown that it is not the poorest who garden but the proudest, especially the flag-bearers of a traditionalist vision of rural life.

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Author Biography

John Omohundro, State University of New York College, Potsdam

John Omohundro is Professor of Anthropology at SUNY Potsdam College in northern New York. He and his wife, Susan, are conducting long-term ethnographic research on human ecology in the northern Newfoundland communities mentioned in this paper. He returns to the Great Northern Peninsula in the fall of 1996 to produce a report on the problems of the forests and logging industry in collaboration with Michael Roy of Newfoundland's Centre for Forest and Environmental Studies

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Published

2022-06-02

How to Cite

Omohundro, J. (2022). "All Hands Be Together": Newfoundland Gardening. Anthropologica, 37(2), 155–171. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/2015

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