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You Think the Earth Is a Dead Thing
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You Think the Earth Is a Dead Thing

2019-10-22 · 70 min · ★ 7.6

TV Movie · Documentary

Just one of the many far-reaching impacts of the slave trade on human history is on agriculture and horticulture. While the French plantation owners on the Caribbean island of Martinique had their gardens laid out, Versailles-style, their enslaved workers continued their tradition of using medicinal wild herbs. Nowadays these herbs represent one of several resources through which the people of Martinique counter the health and ecological ravage caused by the use of pesticides on the banana plantations. Farmers are reclaiming uncultivated lands to grow indigenous vegetables, without any industrial pesticides; they fight boldly for simple biodiversity.

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Directors
Florence Lazar
Production companies
Sister Productions
Countries
France
Status
Released

Top Cast

Marie-Nicolette ReibecSelf
Suzette MauzoleSelf
Moïse Chérubin-JeannetteSelf
Emmanuel NossinSelf
Sylvie BoudreSelf
Anne-Lise BellanceSelf
Véronique MontjeanSelf
Marie-Jeanne MontjeanSelf
Joseph MauzoleSelf
Arnaud de MeillacSelf
Jean-Claude MontjeanSelf

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