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Sowing Roots project focus on Caribbean people

This free exhibition is part of the Garden Museum’s Sowing Rootsproject, a first of its kind journey into the history of the gardening cultures and traditions that Caribbean people carried with them when they moved to the UK after World War II: from breadfruit, provision grounds, and botanical gardens, to chocho, ackee and the green spaces of South London. How did the horticultural knowledge and traditions of the Windrush generation shape their experiences of migration and community building in the...