All together now
t’s a sunny autumn morning, and tucked down the end of a cul-de-sac in the West Auckland suburb of Rānui, the pumpkins at the community garden are almost ready to harvest. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill supermarket-variety pumpkins either. With chunky hourglass figures and orange stripes, you’d think they all had the same pumpkin parents. But they’re actually different, explain garden coordinator Lema Shamamba and plot holder Ganga Prasad. One type of pumpkin hails from Lema’s former home in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), while its doppelganger, the seed
