Wed, 13/01/2010 – Jude Fanton
A successful strategy to reduce evaporation, to protect plants from both drying hot and cold winds and to conserve water is the sunken walled garden. Here we see a grandiose garden in a massive fort complex and a modest urban vegetable garden, in the arid zone of western Rajasthan, India, both sunken below the nearby ground level and both with high walls.
IMAGES: Two views of the ancient Chukalao Bargh Garden with fruit trees, bananas and flowers, Mehengarch Fort, Jodhpur
IMAGE: Sunken vegetable garden of Jaswant Bhagwan Hotel in the desert town of Bikaner, north west Rajasthan
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Film Clips from Woodford Festival 2010
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Organic Farmer Saves Seeds near Nagasaki
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Report from Film Promotion Tour of Vanuatu
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Biodiversity and Health: a course on edible biodiversity near Cairns Australia
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Diversity in the City
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"Our Seeds" shown on New York TV
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Eat it or Lose it: Pine Nuts
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Screening adventures
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Wed, 18/03/2009 – Michel Fanton In September 2008 we had an enlivening experience on our way to screening the...