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How British Bangladeshi gardeners have gone back to their roots


More and more members of the community are cultivating traditional fruit and veg as a way of connecting to the old countryWhen my mother, Fulnahar Begum, arrived in England in the 1980s from Bangladesh, she remembers looking out from the plane and wondering where on earth she’d come to. “Everything looked so grey and miserable. It was very different from what we were used to.”At customs, she was worried when an officer pulled a crumpled brown envelope full of seeds from her suitcase. Her own mother, Abijan Bibi, had told her to scatter them in her new home, saying: “That way a piece of this land will always be with you.” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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