A Community Garden In Fargo Is Doing More Than Helping New Americans Access Healthy Food

“Through the community garden, I made many friends. I got to know how to grow vegetables around here.”

By Dan Gunderson
Sahan Journal
September 10, 2019

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“Anywhere I go I love to garden,” Cole said. “[It] feels like home. When we come here, we do this, we are home.”

The garden helps feed three generations of Swarray’s family, she said. And that helps save money, too.

“Me and my sister, we used to rent a car to go down to Minneapolis to the farmers market to buy food,” she said. “But since we started this garden, [I’ve saved] my money. [And] I help my family back in Africa.”

As the gardens die every fall and the gardeners gather to clean up from the harvest, the friendships that have begun here are lasting, said Storm. They’ve helped break down barriers of culture, and language.

“If you’re working in the garden, and doing a task together, and then you see each other out in public,” she said. “And you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, hi! You’re my friend. I still can’t have a conversation with you, but you’re my friend.’”

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