Food Culture Place

A Folk School for Craft, Culture, and Belonging

Our mission at Food Culture Place is to honor the rich tapestry of people and cultures while maintaining a deep respect for the land that sustains us. We strive to craft experiences that not only nourish the body but also feed the soul. Rooted in a profound reverence for culture, people, and the land, we aim to build cultural bridges, grow stronger communities, and keep our crafts, skills, and traditions thriving.

Tucked into the woods along Newfoundland’s Southern Shore, Food Culture Place is a living folk school—rooted in the preservation and practice of Crafts At Risk. This is a place where knowledge is not only taught, but lived; where the work of the hands informs the mind; where culture is carried forward through doing.

Basket weaving—one of our traditional fibre arts—is a craft at risk shaped by land, necessity, and generations of lived experience: materials gathered from the landscape, worked by hand, and carried forward through practice and use. These are not hobbies but a way of life.

At Food Culture Place, basketry stands at the center of our work alongside food, united by observation, relationship to place, and the work of the hands. Over the years we have expanded this invitation, welcoming visiting artists and knowledge holders to share other Crafts at Risk—Indigenous beadwork, fish and hide tanning, felting and dyeing, and other fibre traditions—so that these practices bring the work full circle and ensure the skills that have shaped us are held, shared, and carried forward.