How immigrant communities have turned fertile plots of land into lifelines for food and connection. Written by TKDano.
Published:A gardener tending their plot at Outgrowing Hunger in Portland, Oregon. [Photographs: Tove Danovich]
The first community garden in America was created in Detroit, Michigan, in 1894 after an economic recession left half of the city’s Polish and German immigrants unemployed. The demand for charity soon outstripped what the cash-strapped city was able to provide, as Laura Lawson writes in. Mayor Pingree called upon landowners with vacant lots to donate their land to the cause, and raised $3,600 in capital to provide seeds and instructions that were translated into three languages, Lawson writes.
He was 14 when he and his family came to Oregon. None of them knew English and his parents had never gone to school."I had to hold my mom’s hand to teach her how to sign," Dhimal remembers."So many things were new." Even the climate was something to get used to, another type of starting over: Nepal is tropical. People could grow bananas and lychee and guava, and it was so wet that watering was of little concern.
"They do not have any space. They’re living in big apartment complexes where you can’t grow anything there," says Dhimal of the vast majority of the Bhutanese people he knows in Portland. People don’t just come to the garden and leave—it’s an all-day affair. Some bring lunch, and picnic. Until recently, it wasn’t uncommon for people to bring more than they needed so they could share food with others they knew at the garden.
Some of the adults wear masks, and everyone who appears to be over 60 has one on. Unconcerned, or perhaps just so happy to be freed from their homes, the children run around with large smiles on their faces while their parents weed and water. In one of the gardens, a gardener built a"treehouse", an elevated hideaway located next to a large tree that hasn’t quite leafed out yet, for his and other children to play in.
Mangali Suba, 33, has kept a plot at the community garden for over seven years. She often calls her family before she heads over to the garden and they visit and work on their plots. Since the shelter-in-place orders, they still might call and meet at the garden but they stay far away."My sister is doing her own garden. My mom is doing her own garden. I’m doing my own garden," she says. They wear masks and gloves.
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