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To tell us the story of this remarkable transformation, who better than someone who has been here from the very start? | To tell us the story of this remarkable transformation, who better than someone who has been here from the very start? | ||
- | //[The camera cuts to a garden, where an elderly woman is kneeling in a bed of geraniums. She looks up, into the camera, sets down her trowel, and gets to her feet, wiping her hands clean on her sturdy work trousers]// | + | //[The camera cuts to a graveyard, grave-markers almost buried in the banks of flowers. An elderly woman is kneeling in a bed of primroses.]// |
- | **Presenter:** Ms. Mayweather, could you tell us about your work here? What have been the biggest challenges? | + | **Voiceover:** Lyla Mayweather: scientist, farmer, and peace-maker. She planted some of the first seeds here, and she's spent her life helping the planet blossom. |
- | **Lyla:** Well, of course, there were the riots in the beginning, and the issues with NEXUS, but as for //interesting// challenges, the biggest was the pollination issue, of course. Now, many of the plant species we grow here are typically insect-pollinated, and while there are many things we can do with modified plants - I'm sure you've heard about the work I did with geraniums in the early years - pollinators were always an issue. As b-Exagora has no native insect life, it was almost a decade after we began work that we could first import bees, and... | + | |
+ | //[The old woman looks up, sets down her trowel, and gets to her feet, wiping her hands clean on her sturdy work trousers]// | ||
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+ | **Lyla:** Sorry, I was just weeding this bed - that particular grave is empty now, but it's still important to keep it neat, after all. | ||
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+ | You're here to hear our story, I suppose? Where would you like me to begin? | ||
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+ | **Presenter:** What have been the biggest challenges here on b-Exagora? | ||
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+ | **Lyla:** Well, of course, there were the riots in the beginning, and the issues with NEXUS, but as for //interesting// challenges, the biggest was the pollination issue, of course. | ||
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+ | Now, many of the plant species we grow here are typically insect-pollinated, and while there are many things we can do with modified plants - I'm sure you've heard about the work I did with geraniums in the early years - pollinators were always an issue. B-Exagora has no native insect life, and it was decades after we began work before we could first import bees... |