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Green
& Black's Rainforest Garden
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Designers:
Jane Owen - Ann-Marie Powell |
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This
garden is a first for Chelsea; it conjures up a
rainforest family home and has been made, in part, by
Cameroonian indigenous women who want to raise awareness
about the threats that they and the rainforest are
facing. The garden has its roots in the 18th century
British tradition of narrative gardens, which expressed
all kinds of stories from the political to the personal.
The story of this garden is about changes that hunter
gatherers are making as their hunting grounds are being
destroyed by illegal logging, mining and bush meat
hunting. Roughly cleared productive plots planted, like
this one, with crops like maize and cassava are one of
the ways that indigenous communities now provide food
for themselves. |
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