Category: Plants

History of Camden Chinese Market Gardeners: Resilience, Innovation, and Struggles
Agricultural heritage · Agricultural modernism · Agriculture · Agriculture history · Belonging · Camden · Camden Chinese Market Gardeners · Camden District · Camden Rotary Club · Camden Story · Camden Town Farm · Community identity · Country town · Cultural Heritage · Economy · Elderslie · Families · Family history · Farming · Gardening · History · Horticulture · Intensive agriculture · Irrigation · Landscape · Lifestyle · Local History · Local Studies · Lost Camden · Memory · Modernism · Nepean River · Plants · Ruralism · Sense of place · Small town · Social History · Stories · Storytelling

History of Camden Chinese Market Gardeners: Resilience, Innovation, and Struggles

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The presentation at Camden Rotary Club details the significant contributions and challenges faced by Chinese market gardeners in Camden. It sheds light on their resilience, innovation, discrimination, and impact on the local economy. The book "A History of Camden Chinese Market Gardeners 1899-1993" emphasizes their agency, making an important contribution to local history and the literature of the Chinese diaspora in Australia.

Botanic gardens herbarium at Mount Annan wins top architecture award
20th century · Architecture · Art · Attachment to place · Australian Botanic Gardens Mount Annan · Belonging · Built heritag · Camden Story · Colonialism · Cultural Heritage · Design · Garden history · Gardening · Herbarium of NSW ABG · Heritage · History · Landscape · Lifestyle · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Mount Annan · Place making · Placemaking · Plant Nursery · Plants · Public art · Sculpture · Sense of place · Storytelling · Uncategorized · Urban growth · Urban history

Botanic gardens herbarium at Mount Annan wins top architecture award

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The National Herbarium of NSW at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan has been awarded the AILA 2023 NSW AILA Awards in the Health and Education Category.

Spiked Rice-flower – a little plant causing a big fuss
Attachment to place · Camden · Community identity · Cumberland Plain · Cumberland Plain Woodland · Ecology · Gardening · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Native flora · Place making · Placemaking · Plants · Sense of place · Studley Park · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Urban growth · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · Urbanism

Spiked Rice-flower – a little plant causing a big fuss

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A little plant causing a big fuss in the Camden area is the Spiked Rice Flower - Pimelea Spicata - adjacent to a proposed redevelopment of Studley Park House

Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens
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Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens

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The Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia, cover 29 hectares of gardens and 51 hectares of surrounding parkland. Established in 1816, it is the oldest colonial botanic garden in Australia, attracting 4 million visitors annually. With historical significance dating back to 1788, the Gardens reflect changing landscape styles and serve as a popular public space.