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(♪ whimsical music ♪ )

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My name is Tahmina Martelly.

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I'm the resiliency programs
manager at World Relief Seattle.

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(♪ instrumental music ♪ )

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The beautiful thing

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about this particular garden
is where it's located.

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Many of the people
in this community,

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especially refugee
immigrant communities,

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wanted a place where they 
could grow food.

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They wanted a place

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that they

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could get
their hands in the soil

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and it would make them
feel at home,

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because that's what's familiar.

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Even if you're displaced from
home, your hand in the soil,

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you know that.

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People miss that.

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As a person who has displaced
myself, I came from Bangladesh

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and that's

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one of the things I missed, is
having a place to grow food

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or to plant flowers,
to have my hands in the soil.

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And if you live in an 
apartment complex,

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you're disconnected
from the land,

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you're disconnected from the soil,

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and you feel separated.

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And it also affects
your mental health

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and your sense of community.

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So a place to grow food,
connect with neighbors

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and share
stories is so important.

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This particular garden

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was carved out of a 
one-acre asphalt

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and parking lot right in the
middle of Kent, Washington.

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And the beautiful thing about it

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is it's a way to solve
more than one problem.

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This was a major area
because it's on a hillside

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for water quality issues.

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It flooded regularly.

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A huge area where it would

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stormwater would collect,
and polluted stormwater would

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enter right into Mill Creek,

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into the Green River,
straight into the Duwamish,

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affecting our salmon
and our orca.

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And so we have put in rain
gardens, bioswales,

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rainwater capture systems,
all of those together.

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This has become a thriving 
green stormwater

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infrastructure site.

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So we're solving so
many problems in the same place.

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People have a chance to grow
food, build community,

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and we get to affect
our watershed.

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I'm trying to find ways
a little bit.

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(indiscernible conversation)

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That tiny little spine
sticking out of it.

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These, again, you can't find
in any local grocery store.

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Nepali and Bhutanese
people call this (foreign word).

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They're wonderful, very tasty,
highly nutritious, difficult

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to find anywhere,
but easy to grow in a garden.

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When you're a newcomer
in this country and you're

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holding down more than one job,
it's hard to know,

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how do you effect
climate change?

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How do you understand
it? Learn about it?

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What do you do
in your personal life?

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What's beautiful about this
garden is because you're growing

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food and building community and
a space where you are actively

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working at capturing rainwater,
where you're actively

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working with rain gardens
in a bioswale and a food forest.

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You're learning
about the solutions

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to climate change,
how it affects the watershed

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in easily understandable,
digestible ways

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so that it's

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not such a broad concept
and you're able to figure out,

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no matter what

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your language is, how it is
, that you can affect change

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and big and little ways

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into your own community,
into your own watershed.

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That's what's
really beautiful about it.

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