Commissioned for Wakefield’s Rhubarb Festival, my cartoon animation tells the story of rhubarb from its origins in the cold winters and rich moist soils of Southern Siberia, through to the heyday of Yorkshire’s Rhubarb Triangle when a regular night train from Ardsley Station carried 200 tons of forced rhubarb to London.
Along the way we meet Marco Polo, Ghengis Khan’s camels, Nicholas Culpeper and Rhuben Cushstead, head gardener.
Music by Karen Chalmers.