The Eden Project's Mediterranean Biome has become a bigger feast for all the senses as health-giving food from the region is served amid the plants. An explosion of scent and colour awaits visitors when they enter the Mediterranean Biome at the Eden Project in Cornwall and make their way through citrus and olive groves, a vineyard and rows of vegetable crops. It's another ideal way for Eden to showcase mankind's dependence on plants. Food was introduced in the Biome after oods deluged its restaurants last November. "We'd been bouncing around the idea for a while," says Catherine Cutler, Mediterranean Biome supervisor. "Then we suddenly had all these people to feed."
There are so many stories to tell about every plant, there is so much we could say. With our fruit, for instance ?a the apricots and peaches, kiwis and loquats the key point is that these come from across the world, from Asia, China and Persia, and yet they're nearly all grown commercially in the warm temperate regions, where they need a lot of water," she explains. "For many people the scents in there bring back happy memories of holidays in the Med, and it puts them in a great place for learning new things, too."
There are so many stories to tell about every plant, there is so much we could say. With our fruit, for instance ?a the apricots and peaches, kiwis and loquats the key point is that these come from across the world, from Asia, China and Persia, and yet they're nearly all grown commercially in the warm temperate regions, where they need a lot of water," she explains. "For many people the scents in there bring back happy memories of holidays in the Med, and it puts them in a great place for learning new things, too."
