In a secluded lot next to a former gasworks in suburban Berlin, Martin Roetzel is breathing new life into a tradition of centuries past: the monastery garden. Since 2022, he has been organising wild herb walks and workshops and supplying high-end restaurants from his array of more than 150 kinds of herbs, leaves and trees. (AP video by Fanny Brodersen)
A Berlin garden of flavorsome herbs revives a monastic health tradition from the Middle Ages
In a secluded lot next to a former gasworks in suburban Berlin, Martin Roetzel is breathing new life into a tradition of centuries past: the monastery garden. Since 2022, he has been organising wild herb walks and workshops and supplying high-end restaurants from his array of more than 150 kinds of herbs, leaves and trees. (AP video by Fanny Brodersen)