Territorial Outreach
Sound postcard the Memory of the forest

Four women gatherers from the Andean Araucanía - Silvia Navarro Manquilef, Sudelia Neculpan, Olga Vázquez and Catalina Meza - tell us about their memories of the wild foods found in this territory.

Listen here to the sound postcard Memory of the forest

The changle, wild fruits, yuyo, pine nuts, peas and preparations such as locro are some of the ancient foods typical of the ecosystem of the temperate rainforest of the Araucanía region. These foods are part of the biocultural heritage of the Araucanía lake territory, whose diversity and flavors are due to the native forests, the rivers, the health of its soils and the hard work of vegetable gardeners, who through their seeds -passed down from generation to generation- safeguard the wealth and ancestral knowledge, allowing to preserve the diversity of countless species of the territory.

Through the story of these four women gatherers, from the communes of Panguipulli and Curarrehue, we reflect on the memory of wild foods and their direct relationship with the preservation of ecosystems. This project is part of the program “the memory of the forest” which arises from the research developed by Constanza Monterrubio and Fundación Mar Adentro, in the framework of the Bosque Pehuén Residency program, which develops a series of actions that seek to raise awareness about the biodiversity of forests and contribute to the biocultural memory.

As part of this same program, thanks to the collaboration with the artist, editorial designer and director of the platform Estudio Repisa, Sandra Marín, they created a fanzine inspired by the experiences and stories rescued in the sound postcard La memoria del bosque. The homonymous project aimed to transfer this knowledge to the book format, with the objective of diversifying its use and being a tool to be used in other pedagogical spaces.

Likewise, in order to activate the same publication, a fanzine workshop “Collective book the memory of the forest” was developed, in which children, young people and older adults from Curarrehue participated in a learning experience and collective memory through the creation of a collaborative book on the relationship between wild foods, human health and forest health.

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