RoughNightForLulu

Tumbling towards sporadically
Wed Jun 29
Growing Home Growing Home is a project brought forth by Philadelphia’s Center City Nationalities Service Center (and supported by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s City Harvest Growers Alliance initiative, as well as by donations) that - through community gardening - seeks to ease the adjustment of refugees now residing in the United States.  “The refugees from Bhutan—ethnic Nepalis—and the refugees from Burma—ethnic minorities—experienced severe discrimination in their home countries and spent years in refugee camps before arriving in America. When [… asked…] what would make the difficult transition here easier, a place to work the soil was at the top of the list.” - UTNE So for the past few months, the garden site - formerly five adjacent vacant lots on Emily Street - has been cared for by seventy immigrant families seeking to reestablish a connection with the earth. There are seventy-two active planting beds. “Growing Home seeks to improve refugee diets by providing nutritious produce indigenous to their ethnic backgrounds; offer refugees a therapeutic outdoor space in which to build community, reconnect to their agricultural roots and engage in regular exercise.” - Growing Home This is such a beautiful project - well done, Philly.

Growing Home

Growing Home is a project brought forth by Philadelphia’s Center City Nationalities Service Center (and supported by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s City Harvest Growers Alliance initiative, as well as by donations) that - through community gardening - seeks to ease the adjustment of refugees now residing in the United States. 

“The refugees from Bhutan—ethnic Nepalis—and the refugees from Burma—ethnic minorities—experienced severe discrimination in their home countries and spent years in refugee camps before arriving in America. When [… asked…] what would make the difficult transition here easier, a place to work the soil was at the top of the list.” - UTNE

So for the past few months, the garden site - formerly five adjacent vacant lots on Emily Street - has been cared for by seventy immigrant families seeking to reestablish a connection with the earth. There are seventy-two active planting beds.

“Growing Home seeks to improve refugee diets by providing nutritious produce indigenous to their ethnic backgrounds; offer refugees a therapeutic outdoor space in which to build community, reconnect to their agricultural roots and engage in regular exercise.” - Growing Home

This is such a beautiful project - well done, Philly.