Welcome to the St Helena National Trust

Left to right: Lin Goncalves, Helena Bennett, Sharon Waterworth, Martina Peters, Fira Bache and Dot Cozens

Members of the NTZ Executive Council were very excited to welcome Helena Bennett, Director, and Martina Peters, Environmental Scientist from the St Helena National Trust to Zimbabwe.

The St Helena National Trust and NTZ are proud members of the INTO Tropical Gardens network initiative and the NTZ was selected to host Helena and Martina, our INTO colleagues,  to showcase the work that is happening here.

The focus of their visit is to talk about themes around Climate change adaptation and resilience, Shared colonial legacies and heritage. INTO Tropical gardens has a network theme that also includes community outreach and the revitalisation of native and ethnobotanical plant knowledge. Participants in the group expressed a strong desire to learn from one another, share best practices and explore how gardens can be tools for education, healing and cultural revival.

During their five-day stay here our visitors will visit La Rochelle gardens, Murawha’s Hill and Worlds View properties. This is a fantastic opportunity that has arisen for both National Trusts and our enormous thanks go to INTO for providing the funding to make this exchange trip possible. We rae verymuch loking foward to a fruitful exchange of knowledge and ideas.