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THE SPICE GARDEN
The Spice Garden is the central arrival area for visitors, with car park, 'reception' visitor information centre, the Samakanda shop and main office. The various walks and tours are all designed to start and finish from this point. Less developed at present than The Bowl, the Spice Garden will integrate existing tea with inter-cropped spices, various bamboos and traditional local vegetables, like cassava (manioca), snake gourd, bitter gourd and wing bean.
Areas have also been demarcated for cultivating ornamental flowers, a work-zone consisting of pottery studio, creative office space and crafts centre, plus additional land for commercial vegetable production protected by shade-cloth.
Heading west from the office building, the main path takes one into the Bowl and towards the Tea Shed, Bungalow and western end of the Ridge. Heading east takes one past the old Workshop, a large example of traditional mud building, where timber was once stored and seasoned for building but is now being converted into accommodation for volunteers, providing three double bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and an open sided living space. The path then forks, dropping down to the River Walk on the left, or up to the Banyan Tree and Ridge Walks to the right.’
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