Daughter of the soil: Nomama Mei has a dream of an authentic Eastern Cape botanical garden

For Nomama Mei, creating a “conservation garden” in the province of her birth holds a profoundly personal and cultural resonance, an almost sacred connection to nature that began when she was a little girl in the small town of Sterkspruit. Anneliese Burgess speaks to her about being the only black woman at agricultural college and teaching children to love nature.