Finding Community in Common Ground

Mon, 11 May 2015 09:34:24 -0400

by Jill Wrigley

When asked how many raised plots in the UMBC Garden their family would like, Ba Zo and Na Lun, my course collaborators and refugees from Burma, turned their gaze to an unused swath of land nearby. Ba Zo smiled and said: “We’d like to have all that. We could grow a lot of food.” Along with my students, I followed his gesture and considered the space. Ba Zo remarked that the power and good energy of the earth was waiting there, waiting to be used to grow food... (continue reading)