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Why raise funds to produce a Guidebook?
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Because the history and heritage of the oldest botanical garden in the western hemisphere deserves to be documented and shared
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Established in 1765, this year (2025) marks its 260th anniversary, so help me, Dr Christina Welch, to help the garden celebrate its international importance, and highlight its largely lost legacy as a global plant hub in the late 18th-century
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Help bring to light information about the horticultural knowledge and labour of the enslaved African workers who were crucial to the garden's success, and acknowledge the heritage of plant-use by St. Vincent's indigenous people (today known as the Garifuna and Kalinago)
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This project will produce and deliver 1,000 bespoke high-quality colour 64-page guidebooks for and about the St Vincent & Grenadines Botanical Garden, the oldest botanical garden in the western hemisphere
The project has the full support the the directorate of the garden and
the Prime Minister, Dr Hon. Ralph Gonsalves
has agreed to write the Foreward to the guidebook
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