KOMU and the Refugee Garden Go Green

KOMU reporter (and friend) Emily Spain did an awesome piece on the Refugee Garden for their segment “KOMU 8 Goes Green.” Emily did a great job… even though it took us two weeks to finally find a refugee who could speak on camera (remember: as intended, most of our growers have very limited English skills).

Check out the story and video here!

If you have any free time and you are in the area, go check out the garden. You will see that a lot of vegetables have begun to come in. Also, you may learn a thing or two about different growing techniques.

The garden is located behind Broadway Christian Church at 2601 West Broadway. It’s the garden on the left and our refugees have plots #1-26, 35, 36, and 42-48.

Sorry for the Delay

I can’t believe we already planted over a month ago. The time has flown, and the garden has progressed!

We have spent the past 2 weeks working on grant that would allow us to expand the garden project significantly (think larger plots and produce to sell). Therefore, our brains and fingers are tired so this post will be predominantly pictures. Enjoy!

A volunteer, Josh, built this tool shed for us with the help of his dad and fellow scouts in order to earn his Eagle Scout.We couldn’t be happier with the finished product!

Josh even went so far as to add 2 rain barrels to the tool shed. With all the rain this week, the barrels are already full!

The refugees are really beginning to flourish in their plots. The first fruits (and vegetables) of their labor are beginning to come in.

My favorite part about this blog is being able to show you the progress that has been made.

This was the garden on May 25, 2009.

This is the garden today.

This is the garden on June 1st, planting day.           These are those same plots today.

And finally, these are S Barry’s chin baung plants from one of our first posts. At the time these few plants were the only ching baung plants the refugee’s had. These were as large as they grew too.

Today, there are at least 3 plots dedicated solely to chin buang. The plants are already taller than they ever were last year. We can’t wait to see the refugees harvest!

Thanks for following the progress of the Refugee Garden Project.