The statements below are a compilation of ongoing expressions (since April, 2023) of the Og-woi People’s Orchard and Garden from a variety of sources: Google reviews, emails, petitions, and social media. This page is updated regularly.
Listen to the public comments on the Og-woi from the April 4 and 18, 2023 City Council Meetings
PANDOS and MMIW+Utah Letter of Support for the Og-woi
This community garden has been such a healing space for all. It has been a collaborative community gathering space and provided medicine and food to any who ask. So much indigenous medicine used for health and ceremony has been gifted for years from this garden. It would be shameful to do away with a space that has brought nothing but good.
This project is a stellar example of actual Community Driven Community Stewardship of the Public Lands, using only Community resources so far. It also closely aligns with several other initiatives that the City is managing Grant money for, particularly the Love Your Block Grant and the Food and Equity Gardens Grant programs.
Please save this very special garden for the community. Our city needs more green spaces and community hubs like this one.
The garden is a great addition to the neighborhood and the fairpark area. Many people love working in the garden and enjoying all it has to offer. It’s also refreshing to have something beautiful on a piece of land that wasn’t previously used for anything other than growing weeds and being an eye sore. I can think of no reason the Og-woi People’s Orchard should be removed – only reasons as to why it should stay.
Removing the Og-Woi garden and orchard will have greater impacts on the people in the area beyond providing free food. The garden is a good thing and brings community together making the area safer and more unified. Something SLC is in need of.
Don’t take away the garden that builds the community!
I haven’t had the fortune of visiting this garden yet but I was hoping to this year. I live in Ogden. I see the Og-woi as an example that should be followed by cities all of Utah. Everyone should have access to fresh food and produce and I can’t imagine a better use of the space than to provide food for your community and those who can’t afford it from the grocery store. It’s also imperative we protect green spaces that allow for bees and other critters to continue to have a habitat to thrive in.
Community building!! Stewarding the Jordan River area
If the city cares about addressing food and housing insecurity, they shouldn’t shut down community efforts to address food and housing insecurity.
Growing food locally for the community is the best use of this land!
I am a big bicycle fan and I volunteer at the Og-woi garden. I bike on the Jordan River Trail to the garden on many sunday mornings, spring to fall. I ask Salt Lake City to not evict Og-woi.
Og-woi is a Welcoming space aligned with the goals of the SLC Public Lands Master Plan.
Og-woi volunteers, in past three years, (the time of Covid), came together and cared for this neglected land on the Jordan River, north of the fairgrounds, turning an underutilized weed patch into a vibrant community space, alive with activities that involve and empowers residents.
When Og-woi started our community needed vibrant outdoor spaces. We still need this vibrant outdoor space. Especially here and elsewhere on the westside. The City has been supportive in fits and starts.
I are asking the City again re-join the Og-woi supporters. The public opinion survey reportedly showed high level of public support for Og-woi. Og-woi volunteers have asked for survey results in a GRAMA request. The Og-woi garden is a perfect opportunity to address soil quality and contamination concerns that are prevalent in our neighborhoods.
In SLC we need to learn and practice and educate our neighbors about safe gardening because soils throughout our communities contains concerning levels lead and Arsenic and other contaminates practices ourselves .
Og-woi is already an important community asset. Please don’t evict Og-woi.
The community should be able to reclaim public spaces, and this garden is a great example of how to do that.
The garden is a beautiful space that has provided the City of Salt Lake with free labor and fulfilled the City’s goals of beautifying urban space. It should be given a chance to continue operating without having to remove the soil and undo the months of hard work that the community has put into it.
Hali’s Memorial Garden
I am asking for the city to please lift the May first deadline to remove the Og-woi People’s Orchard and Garden while we work through the CIP process.
The trees in this garden were first planted in 2020 as an amazing act of community stewardship. I was personally fortunate enough to stumble across the land in 2021 while walking along the Jordan River parkway. Since that time, I have had the opportunity to meet and work with a diverse and caring group of people that are volunteering their personal time, resources, and physical efforts to provide a much needed service to the immediate community and the entire surrounding city.
Salt Lake City communicated through the 2022 Parks Master Plan that their first goal is “Environmental Health and Sustainability”. The 2 related “Transformative Projects” that were communicated through the Master plan are to “Put Environment First” and to “Grow our Urban Forest”.
This Orchard and the 30+ trees contained within clearly contribute to Growing our Urban Forest, more importantly, a food forest that provides perennially fresh, nutritionally dense food to our community with absolutely no cost or prerequisites to or from the recipient.
This Garden as a whole puts our environment first in numerous ways. This space began as a completely neglected lot full of nothing but trash, debris, and unmitigated weed cover. The collective efforts of the garden volunteers have been adding to the biological diversity that this space desperately needed. The organic approach to the space is in far contrast to the complete lack of effort put into this space prior to our involvement.
Again, I am asking the City to please lift the May first deadline to remove the Og-woi People’s Orchard and Gardenwhile we work through the CIP process . Please allow us to continue providing this much needed resource to the community, and to continue caring for this small plot of land in a caring and thoughtful manner.
This is such an important community resource and something SLC should be doing more of, not less! This beautiful garden brings so much life and sustenance to this community, our neighborhood, and the Jordan River Trail.
This is a great example of the solutions for urban living that need to be protected and repeated.
This is a place of community and purpose.
We need all the green, garden, and open space as possible in Salt Lake City to offset pollution, to improve air quality, and to increase quality of life here! Thank you.
This garden is a vital part of the community and must remain! Healthy, local food is crucial to health and well-being of everyone
The Og-Woi garden is a beautiful space that has taught me so much about gardening and community. The city would be doing itself a disservice to take it away from its constituents. I’ve been going there since before my son was born and I plan on raising him there to value community and gardening
This orchard and garden are a tool for teaching the people of Utah how to nurture the land we call home. That is something worth keeping alive now and for the generations to come. If the city wants its people to prosper, removing the garden and orchard as well as its art, does nothing but hinder the works of many.
I work nearby and walk by on my lunch breaks. It brings me so much joy in an otherwise trash-riddled area. I love that neighbors are using this land to grow food. It would be a shame to remove it.
Protecting this garden will significantly help advance our city’s capacity to grow more fresh food to feed our communities in need of nutrition and Access.
I loved taking my high school students there on a field trip last fall.
Environmental justice for some is a victory for all. I believe that we, as stewards of the earth, have the divine right to cultivate it freely and benefit from it. Laboring together and eating together brings communities together and makes them strong. And strong communities build strong cities, strong nations, strong futures.
I think this community garden is a wonderful project. I would love to see it supported by the city and flourish.
The garden is important for many reasons. 1. Encourages social interactions with neighbors throughout the city. 2. Beautify the Jordan River Pkwy walk for pedestrians and cyclists.3. Serves the less privileged people in the neighborhood who visit or walk by on their way to the dog park 4. Educates people on food sovereignty, growing their food, community service, and educating young people. 5. Serves as a place for people to honor activists who have passed away. Local artists support and are supported by designing murals and one bed is a pollinator’s garden. Gives their loved ones and friends a place to honor the memories and care for the plants by tending to the garden when visited and promotes community service. 6. It’s a great example of sharing paradigm. 7. The garden is maintained by volunteers who show up every Sunday to help with desired goals.8. Promotes positive values as no one person makes decisions for the garden. 9. Possible helping with the climate and cooling off of the area via the orchard as it grows. 10. Engages children to become curious about plants and their food. Promotes sustainability. 11. The garden is an example for other cities or states in a people-led city project that brings beauty, food, and social engagement. 12. Serves a community neighborhood that needs it, not one that does not need assistance. The garden has great value for many for many different reasons. I am currently grieving the death of my daughter. If it weren’t for the garden, I’d never leave my bed. I know many others who struggle with depression and they too, have mentioned volunteering on Sundays and when we have educational events helps with their depression. Please, please let us continue with this heart project. It is counter-intuitive to remove the hard work and accomplishments of many volunteers. Plus, killing growing, live plants, to me, is a ridiculous notion. A waste of volunteer donations and resources, and will squash many people’s will to volunteer within the area.
The Og-woi is an example of how food can be accessible to our community. It has proven to be a space that contributes to the overall health of the environment and learning about community resiliency. Numerous families and individuals have benefited from the joys of the Og-woi People’s Orchard and Garden, once a neglected space filled with puncture vine – transformed into a space of beauty and sustenance.
Community Gardens are a treasure. Leave it alone.
The Og-woi People’s Orchard and Garden is an important part of the community. It brings people together. It feeds people. It is a place of beauty & healing.
I appreciate how the garden has brought attention to the Jordan River and it’s environment.
I have been to the garden several times. I have both given to and been given from the garden. This garden must stay available to the community. The cities interests should not conflict with the interests of Og-woi People’s Orchard and Garden.
The garden is an important part of the community- it improves public health by means of food sharing and education.
This garden helps the local community….
Please save this garden—it is a blessing and not a problem!
This garden is important to me because I am an Indigenous person who partners with the other Indigenous folks that help support the Og-Woi garden (namely, Pandos), and there is Indigenous plant medicine that has been sent to us (myself and other Indigenous folks in the Puget Sound area) over the past 2 to 3 years. We (Indigenous gardens in the Puget Sound area) partner closely alongside the Og-Woi garden and exchange plants so that the Indigenous communities in our areas have access to specific plants used for medicine, healing and ceremonies. Our tribal relationship and trade routes pre-date the state borders of our respective locations and we hope to continue this relationship for us and our Indigenous communities.
All community gardens are a beautiful addition to our spaces. Praying this one will be saved
This garden is apart of this community’s legacy. Taking things like this out of communities is where it all starts to fall apart. The world is struggling with connection everywhere! Because we are removing everything to help us create connections with other people and with our earthly mother.
I have been so impressed with the wise leadership and community care this pop-up garden has generated since its inception. Why is the city threatened by this?
Not only does the garden need to be protected, but should be invested in and expanded. We need more gardens across the city, more community spaces, not less
Public gardens like this creates community pride, and a love for your neighborhood and community. The city should encourage, fund and work through issues. This garden has improved the aesthetics of this section of the Jordan River trail and made it interesting.
There has been so much effort and art and community time and funds put in to this special place. To take it all away is the opposite of healing work / reparations / land back. It is adding insult to injury.
The Og-woi Garden has been used for MANY purposes that are important to the SL community and work to positively impact the community. Not only does the space provide food for bees which are of vital importance, it also serves as a community building and healing space, for not just the unsheltered but for many sheltered community members as well. This is a space where people come to plant, pray, to grieve the loss of loved ones both personally and in our communities, and to share with each other, in the spirit of kindness and kinship. Please stop attempting to attack the unsheltered community by targeting every single thing that you think is just for them or that you think will make them move to new spaces, because we KNOW that this area is NOT just for them, and we KNOW that this will not have the impact you are trying to achieve by attempting to close it. Stop. The. Hate.
I meet the greatest people at Og-woi volunteer sessions.
It provides natural medicine that different Indigenous tribes have used for ceremony and healing purposes, this land was stolen from the original Stewarts of these lands. It is GOOD that people take advantage of these medicines, fruit, vegetable s and flowers to enjoy as they are running, walking and bicycling on the trails.
We need more spaces like this in our community!
Because food is life!
This garden is exactly the sort of project I want to see in my community. It: 1. revitalizes unused space 2. brings different people together 3. enhances our community resilience 4. improves access to food and 5. honors people who were here before us and those who work to make things better now. The city should be overjoyed that this happened organically and falling over themselves to support it, not trying to stop it.
The Og-woi is a beautiful and much needed space. It is welcoming of all but particularly invests in honoring Indigenous communities and communities of color. These kind of spaces are very rare but cherished in our city. It makes no sense to tear everything out that has been built just to finalize official approvals at a later date. The city, if they are genuine about working with the Og-woi to create the community garden, should allow what has been built to remain and work transparently and collaboratively to support the garden’s future.
It is important because gardens help keep our communities fed and offer nutrients that promote good health
This garden is a wonderful example of community stewardship in action (and fruit trees are awesome!).
The City’s abrupt demand to remove garden boxes, trellises, and art is beyond disappointing. This project is an excellent example of community driven land stewardship Much of the community driven, volunteer, labor that created the orchard took place during the pandemic and I can personally attest to the healing nature of this sacred space in such trying and isolating times. As volunteers, we chatted with neighbors, showed children flowers, bees, butterflies, baby fruit trees and vegetables. We watched hawks, saw the same cute dogs (with their people) headed to the dog park each week, and invited local artists to claim the space for the People. When we needed to grieve, we had a place to honor their lives through art and gardens. To threaten the existence of this space as the Community has built it, diminishes, rather than builds community. I urge the City Council to reconsider this abrupt and seemingly callous action.
Helps people
providing healthy foods to all, especially those systematically excluded and disadvantaged in this capitalistic society we live in
The garden is a welcoming space and brings signs of life and sustainable intention to the Jordan River. In the revitalization of the Jordan River, it’s important to have spaces that show community investment and pride *in addition to* the city’s infrastructure, signage, gardens, etc. The park and the river are intended to be for the public, and Og-woi is the best example of community care and the kind of learning and wellness that people crave. A community space is not just a park that is built and then left alone. A community park needs to be lived in and cared for and about, and that is what Og-woi draws to that section of the Jordan River.
This is a significant site that honors the cultural heritage and stories of the Og-woi peoples; the city has a responsibility to keep and honor these sites.
It is important culturally to the community, especially those who are underrepresented here in Salt Lake City. The government shouldn’t tear down things that are essential to the people. That would be incredibly harmful and lead to the detriment of more culturally significant monuments in Utah and beyond.
Brings calm & beauty to a city
I think this garden is a great place for communities to gather, and with Rita’s mural there, it’s a significant place for the BIPOC community. Please let us keep the garden for our communities!
In the current age for biophilia and biophilic learning, this garden teaches irreplaceable knowledge not found anywhere else. It’s there for a reason and was created for a reason. Don’t forget the reasoning behind its creation.
Gardens bring life and color. Gardens are a place for people to be in relationship with one another. This should not be taken away!
Community connection through sustainable living is what keeps culture strong. It’s what makes Utah so attractive to outsiders. This is a beautiful place and so are the people in it who work hard to make it so. Seems as though salt lake public works is providing a path riddled with red tape. We can’t let this beautiful space be demolished. It must be preserved.
Mutual aid is vital to the continual survival of our neighbors!
Green spaces, and caring for the earth is part of what it is to be human. Why would take something special and small away?
The Og-woi People’s Orchard and Community Garden is an asset that has been a benefit to residents from communities near and far for three years, including students, families and individuals who enjoy its many features.
The Og-woi project’s mission to provide free, accessible food aligns well with aspects of the city’s food equity recommendations for future success, such as:
The inclusion of cultivating food and medicine plants that are culturally relevant to the Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities.
Community agency by way of a diverse planning collective of partners from various neighborhoods and other organizations
Connecting with schools to enhance and strengthen education regarding food growing and healthy eating.
The Og-woi also aligns with the city’s transformative project “Reimagine Neighborhood Parks” in that it sits on a once neglected lot, transformed into a welcoming, inclusive space for all to enjoy, learn about healthy food and biodiversity, create and enjoy community art, and become a steward of the land through community engagement. The current plan and long-term vision for the Og-woi contains community assets such as raised vegetable garden beds (including wheelchair accessible beds), pollinator gardens, an outdoor classroom for experiential learning, self-guided educational tours of the orchard, and local artwork.
The Og-woi project, sponsored by a state and federal recognized 22-year-old 501(c)(3) organization, has various volunteers with decades of expertise who have guided and created its infrastructure.
I am requesting that the city please lift the May 1 deadline to remove the Og-woi People’s Orchard and Gardens and continue working with the Og-woi volunteers to finalize the draft land use agreement.
Community Gardens and horticulture are some of the most potent activities for building community, mutual aid for underserved communities (particularly indigenous and homeless folks), physical and psychological therapy for individuals with disabilities, and climate justice. It is shameful that the city is taking away this vital and sacred place.
The garden is important to me because of my traditional teachings and how and why caring for the land is important.
Beautifies and utilizes an otherwise unused space.
The garden is a beautiful manifestation of community love, hard work and creativity bringing so many people together. WHY in the world would the city want to stomp on that? P.S. It isn’t your land. It is our land. Taxpayer land. And indigenous land.
Let the garden grow!
A community that comes together to support one another is so important. The city should recognize this and do anything in it’s power to support community driven projects.
The Og-Woi Garden plays a unique and important role in the city and is truly a project of the people. I hope the city will support this valuable space.
I visited the garden just before the news that it needed to be shut down came. This garden is an amazing use of previously unused space that actually has the opportunity to help people in the community.
A special community doing open space RIGHT!❤️
I also run a guerilla/ mutual aid garden in my Central City neighborhood of Salt Lake City. It is much smaller than Og-woi, but I fundamentally believe that these types of gardens are important for food democracy and community resilience. The City should be celebrating these efforts instead of shutting them down!
Food sovereignty shouldn’t have to be filtered through the whims of city code and administration
The garden with its free to the public fruits and vegetables should be given all possible support by the city, and schools should find a way to connect students to its philosophy and teachings.
Power to the people! The gov never has interest in unused land until we have interest in it! The people are what give land value!
Please complete the formal agreement process that was initiated in good faith three years ago, so the stewardship of the Og-woi People’s Orchard and Garden can continue to build community within our community. Do not dismantle this spiritual work that has been done by this valuable community.
Mental health space to grieve a loved one, a healthy space to learn more about nature, a space to garden, a space to give back to the community, a space of learning, a public space, a space to find peace at times, a space of a home, and a community space to come back to educate others. A visiting space for social events, a space of contribution, a family space, a community leader space, and a space that shouldn’t be having a dispute over.
Food sovereignty and food justice are critical.
Spaces of cultivation for all people are critical in urban spaces that are often dominated by commercial, private space. I also believe that a garden like this can be critical in helping people feel at home or renew their appreciation of the world around them.
I support community food efforts!
I work at the Department of Natural Resources occasionally during my lunch break I walk the Jordan River trail. The garden means a lot to me because it is a nice stopping place to see life growing along the river rather than the grass wastelands that is behind peoples yards. I think it is vital to the community because it is a place where people can come and grow plants and friendships together.
Love seeing the community effort and example of the kind of world we can make.
Let us know how we can help. It would be a shame to lose another community garden in the valley.
Gardens are vital community spaces. I’m connected to a network of local farmers and food justice organizers, that I could connect this project to if that was useful and desired. Best of luck, and standing with you.
I believe that this garden is a benefit to everyone around it. With little to no risk of it being there my belief is that everyone should be able to reap the benefits and beauty of having this amazing area in our city
I have worked at the Cannon Health Building since 2013, and have owned my home in this neighborhood since 2020. The Og-Woi garden is beautiful and exemplifies care for the Earth, the river, and the community. It’s important to me that it be allowed to continue.
I love this garden and what it means for our community. Also the best peaches I’ve ever had in my life came from this garden!
This is a magnificent people’s garden, which has been made possible through a lot of hard work and dedication by many people. The City should be helping, not obstructing. I fully support Og-woi and Wasatch Community Gardens – and am grateful for all your hard work!
Mayor Mendenhall is ruining our city. We need green and garden space as much as possible… once its gone it is gone forever.
In this time of rising inflation causing people to struggle with food insecurity, and of human disconnection from the natural world, a place like the Og-Woi Orchard and Garden, where anyone can go to grow their own healthy produce, and where people can connect to the earth and to one another, is essential to individual humans’ health and to building a healthier community.
Food is a right not a privilege
Community and green spaces are desperately needed. Before Og-woi the area was a depressing eye sore. Og-woi turned it into a beautiful and functional community asset.
It is great that this city has a garden that is open to the public and has a low barrier-to-entry to participate. I am also excited for what the orchard will be like in a few years once the trees are bearing fruit
The og-woi is a pinnacle part of community, providing enrichment and connection to the land which is desperately needed within the city.
I applaud what the goal is with this project and the benefits to people, especially for those on the west side.
The West Side faces economic hardship and resource guarding from the wealthier parts of the valley. One visible aspect of this is greenery. But this has always been a farming community and removing that robs us of our roots.
Besides, of you’re concerned about lead, fix the city’s plumbing. The water supply is rife with lead.
Every piece of green space is important to our city and its residents.
While I’m not close to the garden, we do volunteer for a community garden in Vineyard and we see the positive impact to the community. We need to be adding more gardens not reducing them.
Community gardens are soo important! It teaches sustainability, accountability, and how to be a part of the community. We need this garden!
It’s extremely sad to me that the city takes measures to remove resources like this. Our tax dollars paying local authority to harass volunteers doesn’t add up to me. There are many other things I’m sure they could better spend their time on. Unacceptable.
The garden is an act of Indigenous sovereignty, Indigenous stewardship, and Indigenous rights. The garden helps people gain back food sovereignty. The garden provides food that does not need to be exported, contributing to the climate crisis and global emissions.
This garden serves a community that is known to have higher rates of food scarcity and need for fresh produce. This community garden serves to bring people together and to build a connection with our earth as they learn to take care of it and their fellow neighbor. It is imperative at this time when the cost of food has been on the rise. During a time when the city has made many decisions that bring to question whether or not they are serving the constituents of the area or whether they are serving their agenda’s, getting rid of any place that brings a community together and feeds those in need would be another one of those decisions. Most city positions are elected position, you would think that showing love to the people of your district would be an investment that proves to show more gain than the temporary influx of showing love to big corporate out of state folks.
I urge that those in the position to decide on the future of this COMMUNITY garden to support and invest in more efforts such as this little place of hope and peace, rather than cutting people off from access to fresh food and serenity.
The garden is an important place to be to have a community garden and sustain people without the weight of being always able to pay for it. This community adds to life, not subtracts from it. We need more places like this around not less.
Food not lawns 💜
This garden is a beautiful and bountiful community project. Please respect community.
We need community gardens for so many reasons…
Traditional lands should always be protected & valued.
The Og-woi garden is an essential community space–the kind of place we should be creating more of, not tearing down!
Cultural, Ecological, Historical Protection Needed
Land Back!
This garden has been a place of healing and community. All people deserve access to food and community!
This program is the heart of a community, it is a refuge for many who feel undeserving and disrespected. It belongs to the people!
People’s Garden, nature, food, community
Because nature is an integral part of our existence as humans and it is so important to foster a sense of cultivation and stewardship with natural spaces in our community.
I love walking past the garden with my dogs daily. It brings me a sense of connection to my community. It is an invaluable resource and we should be expanding community gardens, not reducing them.
This garden is a beautiful and important piece of our community. It helps bring people together from all over the neighborhood, and is a welcome sight for visitors or prospective home buyers (it certainly was for me before we moved in). It deserves to be not only protected, but expanded upon for the good of all of us in Rose Park. It represents the values that make Utah such a great state to live in.
I love the mission, and the development that this project brings to both the neighborhood and the Jordan River, which is so often in need of improvement. It’s important to support people and projects with this much of a sense of passion, care, and civic engagement.
The garden is a place to honor the earth, and loved ones who have passed. It offers food to those that are hungry, and supports our pollinator populations.
This orchard and garden is a beautiful addition to the Jordan River Trail and makes a meaningful contribution to the city’s and state’s interest in promoting community-building and self-sufficiency.
This is a beautiful manifestation of how communities can take care of each other. They deserve the chance to continue growing that seed without any austerity bearing down on them. The new world needs to hold collaboration and care, not dominance and destruction.
Garden is a wonderful example of the community trying to make improvements. There’s an attitude of, you want nice things then keep things nice in our culture. I think it’s a wonderful that this garden is there.
Sunflowers are a natural soil detoxifier. They do have resins inside the plant that can damage growth of other plants nearby, so plant them on the outskirts of your garden and they will help quickly remove toxic substances from the soil. Grow the giant seeded types like mammoth grey stripe and you’ll have the added benefit of edible seeds for yourself and/or local birds, and they are so big they create shade in the heat of summer. They also use little water once they are about 2 feet tall and they’ll get up to 12 feet. The dried stalks of mammoth sunflowers after seed head harvest make excellent kindling for winter time fires, and the seeds can be used to grow delicious edible sprouts if that’s more your thing. Grow your hearts out fellow gardeners!
The garden is one that is fully accessible to the community surrounding it. It proves fresh food to visitors and is a welcoming space for all. Losing the garden would greatly hurt this community.
I visit the garden almost every day on my lunch break. It is such a special place that is respected by folks in the area. It only improves the neighborhood.
food brings people together creating a community
On a recent trip to SLC I had the privilege of coming across this community garden. It’s very well kept and was a great place to build a community moral. I run the DEI section at my job and to have something like this for the community where I’m from would be phenomenal. This is the sort of thing that would make me want to come back and visit Utah again and again.
I passed by the garden on my last day of being in Utah and noticed the beautiful work the community has implemented in the park. The Og-woi people’s orchard and garden is a great addition to the park and truly brightens the area. I am from Providence, RI and there is nothing like this. It’s a great way to bring the community together. I will definitely come back to Utah to see the blooming trees and fruitful garden.
Food sovereignty for all!
I feel strongly in the work of those who are actively involved. there is so reason for the state to interfere in something bringing only good to the community and something that has even improved the “looks” of the community. it is wrong to remove a beautiful, functional, and healing space.
It’s a beautiful area!!! Walk often and it needs to be saved at all costs.
This garden is the direction we must all go in to find deeper harmony, purpose, and health. Thank you for continuing to pour yourselves into the land, the people, the plants.
As a mother of a daughter in the community this is very important to help those with less and be self sufficient.
The Og-woi People’s Orchard and Garden is important because it brings people and the community together to share gardening resources. It provides education on gardening, as well as access to fresh fruits and vegetables. It’s taken unused land and turned it into a orchard and garden for community members to celebrate and honor important activists we’ve lost, and it serves as an active reminder of what we can create together in peaceful resistance – “Beet the System!”
Hey, truly magical place to be truly good example of how we should all be using our public spaces and places. I saw Family playing there. It was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
I was walking by and stopped at this garden and met Tom and Cecelia, very nice people and Tom is very knowledgeable with plants and an easy going guy so pleasant to talk with. I will definitely be going back to volunteer my time at this garden.
Og-woi People's Orchard and Garden 