Of home and harvest

By Megan Backhouse
Updated March 6 2013 - 11:08am, first published November 24 2012 - 3:00am
The garden is set out in the style of a French potager.
The garden is set out in the style of a French potager.

EVELYN Kunoo grew up in southern Burma with a large, lush garden where her parents grew mangoes, bananas, pineapples, and most everything else the family liked to eat. But from the age of 17, Kunoo spent 22 years in a refugee camp on the Thai-Burmese border, where gardens were not quite the oasis they had been in the family home. She found places to cultivate plants all the same, and grew leafy greens as well as herbs, rice and other staples.

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