Flavors of Health and Remembrance: Practice and Politics of Wild Vegetable Gathering by Hmong Americans in the Upper Midwest April 21, 2010

Flavors of Health and Remembrance: Practice and Politics of Wild Vegetable Gathering by Hmong Americans in the Upper Midwest.
Presentation by Marla Emery, Research Geographer with the Northeastern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service. Her research focuses on the role of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in household economies and other direct human-forest interactions. She conducted the first comprehensive study of contemporary NTFP use in the United States, for which she spent a year in Michigan's Upper Peninsula conducting ethnographic research that documented the material uses of 138 products from over 80 botanical species and the livelihood practices associated with them. She is currently repeating that work in the northeastern United States as well as conducting research on fine-scale land use in the Adirondack Park region of New York. Dr. Emery also serves as Adjunct Associate Professor in the University of Vermont Department of Geography. Her past duties with the Forest Service have included developing an agenda for research on the human dimensions of global environmental change for the Forest Service's Northern Global Change Program.

Cosponsored by the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture and the UMN Agri-Food Reading Group.

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