Eastern Black Sea Fruit Heritage and Sustainable Living Project

Gola Culture, Art and Ecology Association; It has carried the experiences it gained with the Green Plateau Festival, which it has organized in the Eastern Black Sea Region for many years, to a new level by expanding the network of relations it has created. With this aim, EASTERN BLACK SEA FRUIT VARIETIES has implemented the CULTURAL HERITAGE, DATABASE CREATION, PROTECTION and REGISTRATION OF SUSTAINABLE LIFE STORIES project.

Using the 'oral history' methods as a method, Gola searched for traces of a life in the shadows with the interviews Gola made in the pilot villages. In this way, it is planned to include documents of fruit varieties, cultural heritage and life stories in the database to be created. In this way, it is planned to include documents of fruit varieties, cultural heritage and life stories in the database to be created.The studies were also documented visually with photographs and videos. Gola tried to draw attention to the re-cultivation of extinct fruits by mediating the recognition of the values of the people of the region. Gola aimed to remind the Laz people, who have distanced themselves from nature for various reasons, about the deep and wise relationship they once established with him.

It has been supported by very valuable people from the imagination stage of the project to the implementation stage. The implementation team of the Muğla Fruit Heritage project, valuable academicians, carried out sustainable living workshops and trainings in Istanbul and the Eastern Black Sea Region during the project. Forest engineers, botanists, sociologists and experienced compilers took part in the project and local researchers provided great support to the studies. Researcher-author İrfan Çağatay Aleksishi, who works on Laz language, acted as a consultant to the project.

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