The L'Anse aux Meadows Mystery
Nearly five centuries before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic, another group of Europeans had already reached North America.
Around the year 1000 CE, Norse sailors from Greenland steered their longships west across the North Atlantic and landed on the northern tip of what is now Newfoundland. Led by Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, they established a small settlement that modern archaeology identifies as L'Anse aux Meadows.
Local Food Sources and Vegetable Cultivation in Greenland
Greenland’s extreme Arctic climate presents formidable challenges for agriculture, yet recent innovations in greenhouse technology and small-scale farming are demonstrating that locally grown vegetables can become a viable food source.
Wild Food in Greenland
In August 2011, plants appeared on tables in Qassiarsuk and Nanortalik. Some had been dried and stored for personal use. Others had been gathered fresh before researchers arrived to ask residents what grew nearby, what it was called, and how it entered household life.