The Kitchen Garden
Redcurrant bush in the kitchen garden at Château de Prangins
Historically, because the plants grown here are mainly Swiss fruit and vegetable varieties that were cultivated and consumed 250 years ago and are almost non-existent today. In the plant types it contains, the garden is a copy of an 18th-century kitchen garden. From an ethnobotanical point of view, it documents the nutritional habits of a population group at a specific time; and ecologically it is a living conservatory that preserves a heritage of plant biodiversity.
The kitchen garden also provides information for the
Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil Research Station genetic database, from which most of the seeds also come.
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