Origins of and cultural practices around Bananas

Video by Seedsavers’ Network, 2008

Bananas originate in South East Asia and Papua New Guinea.

They are an every-day food for some people.

Hindu in a temple of Subramanya once a year, their priest caste eat food on banana leaves in the temple along with thousands of other pilgrims and when the bell rings, everyone eating ceases eating and walks out. In come pilgrims rolling on the ground across the leaves in the belief that any skin conditions they have will be cured.

They roll in the left-over food literally and in a kind of trance. It is an interesting belief system that we respect.

Fiona Campbell

<h3>Key skills</h3> <ul> <li>graphic design</li> <li>trainer – sustainability, organisational management, organic gardening group processes & facilitation.</li> </ul> Experience Programme/project Kastom Garden Programme/ Planting Material Network, Solomon Islands. Role: publication design sustainability education trainer. Other activities Trainer, Organic Gardening course, Eastern Suburbs Community College, Sydney. Excecutive Committee, APACE 1996-1998 (Appropriate Technoloogy for Community and Environment) Sydney. Australian Community Gardens Network state contact trainer – horticulture publication design and website production. Education Bachelor of Education, secondary mathematics Land & Engineering Survey Drafting, Architectural Drafting, Landscape Drafting Conflict Resolution Facilitation and group process training Permaculture Design Certificate. Languages English (native speaker) Solomon Pijin (non-fluent).

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