Fresh herbs offer a jolt of flavor as well as a shot of color and texture, making meal time a far more pleasurable experience, but beyond their organic good looks and savory tastes, an ancient secret can be revealed. As it happens, a great majority of them are nutritional powerhouses capable of boosting the immune system and healing the body well beyond what modern medicine has been able to achieve via the development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Eastern healers have long known the power of an extensive range of medicinal herbs to treat everything from routine to chronic ailments and have even gone to great pains to catalog their findings, but up until now, none have dared to take their findings to the masses in a visual and tactile format that serves not only to enlighten but also to enrich, educate and enhance lives.
Sounds like a tall order. After all, we're talking about herbs...right? Just take ‘em and be done with it. Well, not exactly. The Medical Herbman Café Project (MHCP) intends to do far more than merely dispense herbal remedies to the general population.
Through their traveling herbal garden concept, they spread the good green word to global communities via the installation of human-shaped herb gardens. The strikingly gorgeous visual presentation is eye-catching on its own, but once onlookers realize that each part of Herbman's body is seeded with specific plants that offer healing properties specific to the area they are planted in, then they begin to realize that there's far more to this project than meets the eye.
Sustainability is MHCP's main focus, as is evidenced by the fact that their portable herbaceous displays - consisting of a diverse assortment of plants along with cargo shipping containers that doubles as cafes - can travel around the world spreading good health and knowledge to all who visit. Even more appealing is the fact that the proceeds generated from visitors are channeled into the construction of playgrounds for the world's children.
The system has already been tested in Japan with the implementation of three active Herbman displays/adjoining cafes and now they are prepared to branch out into other countries. This admittedly ambitious project - created by the Japanese design team known as Earthscape -- is precisely the type of eco-insightful display that we need more of in this world!
I can't wait for Herbman to finally hit my neck of the woods!
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