CONSERVATION

“Our communities have always been rich in spirit and rich in song…These
communities harbor homegrown experts on sustainable land use who are
transmitters of local knowledge and traditions that have amassed over
hundreds and thousands of years—traditions now in danger of being lost
in a matter of decades. Volumes of undocumented knowledge are now
in danger of slipping through our hands—from fishing and hunting craft,
to medicinal and culinary uses of local plants, to farming techniques.”
Louis Michot, fiddler and lead singer for the Grammy-nominated Lost Bayou Ramblers
and folklorist with the Cultural Research Institute of Acadiana, Prairie des Femmes LA
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