Practici pomicole tradiționale în gospodăria țărănească din Basarabia
Traditional orcharding practices in the peasant household from Bessarabia

Summary/Abstract: During the time, the importance of growing fruit trees had increased, and their presence had expanded from the village household to the shelter-households from the village border, in the perimeter of some orchards in the village estate until shaping of some fruit-growing regions. The particularities of some traditional occupations are poorly studied within the ethnologic and ethnographic studies from the Republic of Moldova. There are no integral research paper works to solve a certain area in this ethnographic compartment, or even they miss at all, as is the case of fruit-growing, but also of fishing, beekeeping, and so on. Therefore, in this study we perform an interdisciplinary research, choosing to synthesize and reveal the traditional fruit-growing practices from the perspective of their understanding as a material culture elements (household shelters and buildings intervention, folk fruit-growing technique and equipment, etc.), intangible heritage and intellectual capital (knowledge, beliefs, ritual practices related to the growing of fruit trees), to highlight their value as a resource for contemporary communities in order to use traditional patterns in ensuring a healthy and nutritious diet, preserve the identity of fruit-growing regions and their ethnographic heritage.

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