La Vallée de Ferney

A nature reserve and agri-hub on Mauritius’s southeast coast near fishing villages hit by the 2020 MV Wakashio oil spill — where women from Cité la Chaux and nearby communities secured land and built an organic collective farm.

Illustrative photograph of a cliff coast landscape in Mauritius / Grand Port area (Pexels / Dominik Ruhl). Editorial place card image — not tied to a specific Field Note subject’s home.

Illustrative place identifier for southeast Mauritius / Grand Port coast (Pexels / Dominik Ruhl). Used to identify the place, not a Field Note subject’s home. · Credit: Dominik Ruhl / Pexels · Source: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-picturesque-landscape-and-cliff-coast-of-mauritius-7425964/

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The Greens She Carries Home

After the Wakashio oil spill wrecked the southeast Mauritius fishery, Sandy Monrose secured a tired acre the day she asked — and rebuilt household food from organic surplus with a women’s collective.