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The ethnobotanical garden in Oaxaca lies in the former monastery gardens, the beds separated by a grid of narrow gravel paths and surrounded by the high monastery stone walls. It was originally part of the 17th century monastery grounds, and it wasn’t opened as an ethnobotanic garden until 1998. The surrounding buildings, the former Santo Domingo monastery, now houses the Museum of Cultures of Oaxaca. The museum systematically displays its extensive collection of artefacts and through its windows one can see the dense greenery in the ethnobotanic garden and beyond the city all the way to the mountain tops in the horizon. The garden and the museum together offer an intense crash course in the fascinating social-ecological history of Oaxaca.
Photo: Jardín Ethnobotánico de Oaxaca, Mexico, November 2017. Posted on Instagram August 6, 2020.
Katja Malmborg 