Risky Food: Introducing Students to Foraging, Fishing, and Hunting
June 3
2:45 – 3:15pm
Room 522A
We will examine the role that ‘Risky Food’ as a Wild Pedagogy can play in preparing young people for an increasingly uncertain future, one of climate chaos. This presentation will lay the groundwork for experiential learning. Come prepared to create art, play with wild food, and eat it! Strategies for developing your own ‘Risky Food’ program will be shared, along with specific best practices from a learn-to-fish environmental education program in Newfoundland & Labrador.
Bio:
KIMBERLY ORREN is a former high school science teacher turned commercial fisherman and co-founder of Fishing for Success (F4S), a nonprofit social enterprise museum in Petty Harbour that works to transmit the intangible cultural heritage of Newfoundland & Labrador’s family fishery. F4S advocates for an inclusive, gender-equitable, and sustainable small-scale fishery that can help combat climate change and contribute to food sovereignty through local seafood access. Through collaborations with academics and other ENGO’s, F4S is developing a Sea2School program to connect youth in coastal communities to fishing as a cornerstone of ocean literacy and food equity.