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HOLY HORTICULTURE

he medieval Carthusian monks of Mount Grace Priory in the North York Moors lived mostly in solitude, one to a ‘cell’, with food delivered through a hatch by a layperson. Not as dismal as it sounds, each cell was actually a small house with running water and an enclosed garden – a The monks led peaceful lives of

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