By Elizabeth Bernardi
April approaches and gardeners at the Mystic Housing Project are eager to start the planting season. But their new land will remain barren until they can raise the funds to finish fencing within their new community garden, and they're hoping the Somerville community will pitch in.
“We're trying to find people we know who care about gardening in Somerville,” said Warren Goldstein-Gelb, Executive Director of the Welcome Project at the Mystic, which has supported the garden with education, communication, and fundraising.
For 18 years, residents of the Mystic Housing Project have grown food to feed their families in a community garden space. Vietnamese residents who had farmed in their home country wanted to grow the ethnic foods they couldn't find in American stores, so they founded their garden on empty land at the Mystic. Gardeners used unconventional materials, such as bedsprings fished from the trash, to create working trellises. For a decade and a half, the garden, which looked chaotic to some but fed dozens, went undisturbed.
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