Peninsula Residents: Experimental Garden

Shiso Dept: A few boxes away, Tomoko Koike shows off her shiso, a Japanese herb used in salads, soups and sushi. As two of 53 downtown peninsula residents with plots here, Milelli, a recent immigrant from Mexico, and Koike, from Japan, are part of an experimental garden, according to Vancouver Sun. "I meet many people here, practise my English, learn vocabulary," says Milelli, who later relates a story in which one of the other gardeners had an abundance of squash flowers and imelda Milelli reaches into her small garden box atop St. Paul's Hospital and pulls up a handful of wheat grass. They aren't trying to grow super-crops. They are trying to grow a healthy welcoming society. And it seems to be working. As reported in the news.
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