Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Medieval monks were early ecologists and left a wealth of knowledge for later generations of gardeners

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Giles Gasper, Professor in High Medieval History, Durham University

For whatever the land you possess, whether it be where sand
And gravel lie barren and dead, or where fruits grow heavy
In rich moist ground; whether high on a steep hillside,
Easy ground in the plain or rough among sloping valleys -
Whereever it is, your land cannot fail to produce
Its native plants…

These words come the Hortulus: The Little Garden written by Wahlafrid Strabo (c. 808-849), who was a Benedictine monk from the monastery of…

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