Gardening

Local landscaper Patrick Watson has planted close to 10-million trees

Trees restore the land to what it should be, says this green-fingered expert

22 March 2020 - 00:00 By Sarah Hudlestone

The author Elspeth Huxley, who spent much of her life living in East Africa, wrote in her book Out in the Midday Sun: "Forests are the mother of streams. They nourish and protect the springs, and if they are destroyed the springs dry up, rivers cease to flow, people and their cattle have to move elsewhere and another bit of Africa is turned into desert."..

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