trading plant

This scene represents some of the early customs surrounding the act of gathering, preserving and trading plants that were held sacred in connection with their ancient tribal religious rites and ceremonies.

There is Edward Lincoln, the garden's gentleman New England farmer, who prowls the neighborhood trading plants; Suzanne Chambers, who harks back to her Virginia farm roots by composting in Brooklyn, and Yesenia Romero, whose family grows the herbs of their native El Salvador and Cuba.