People
What Happened
Problems
Solutions
contribution to the Garden
100
This person started the garden to connect with his/her dead father.
Who is Kim?
100

What happened to the lettuce that Gonzalo and his father planted?

1. It wilted 2. Bugs started eating it

100
The reason that the lima beans were dying.
1) What is a lack of water? 2) They were planted too early and needed more heat.
100
Sam wanted a garden but felt that he was too old to work and take care of it by himself. How did he solve this problem?
He hired a young Puerto Rican teenager to help him work the garden and carry water for him.
100
Sam planted these in the garden.
What are pumpkins?
200
He/She said, "The older you are, the younger you get when you get to the United States."
Who is Gonzalo?
200
Why did Leona plant Goldenrod in her garden?
because her granny drank Goldenrod tea everyday, and all the doctors who told her to stop drinking it died while she grew to be in her 90s.
200
What is a very important problem that the people who are planting in the garden have keeping the garden alive?
lack of water/getting enough water to the plants, so they can survive and grow.
200
Wendell did two things to save the lima beans.
1. What is digging around the plant to keep the water around the roots. 2. What is watering the beans?
200
Wendell's contribution to the garden.
What is water and saving the lima beans.
300

This person worked as a farmer in Vietnam and is missed. 

Who is Kim's father?

300

What did Virgil's father promise to do with the money he would earn from selling the lettuce to rich people?

Buy him an eighteen speed bike.

300
One day, when Sam was working in his garden and looked up, what problem did he see about the people who were working in the garden?
What is the divided community of the neighborhood where groups from different countries and culture did not mix with each other?
300

After Leona couldn't get the city to listen to her, what did she do to get the city to finally come and clean the lot?

She came with a garbage bag with garbage from the lot, and opened it up in the Public Health Department, so the terrible smell finally got their attention.

300

What is Ana's contribution to the garden?

Getting Wendell to save the lima beans and keeping an eye on it with binoculars.

400

Although he couldn't speak English when he came from Guatemala and had to be taken care of like a child, he was an expert in gardening and showed.

Who is Tio Juan?

400
What did Leona get the city to do?
To clean up the trash from the lot.
400
Leona got the city to clean the lot, so the city took away a sofa that a homeless man used for sleeping. What was the result?
He got angry and ripped plants out from the garden.
400

After fights began, the police came, and plants got ripped out of the garden, people who worried that strangers would come into the garden found 4 solutions.

1. What is a five feet high chicken wire with a gate and a lock around the garden? 2. What is a board fence around the garden 3. What is a KEEP OUT SIGN? 3. What is a barbwire fence around the garden?

400
Curtis's contribution to the garden...
What are tomatoes?
500
He/she worked for big organizations, but now he/she is fixing the world by making people connect with each other.
Who is Sam?
500

When Ana says that she has seen history out of her window, what is she talking about?

The change of the neighborhood in terms of cultures, nationalities, ethnicities and races since 1910.

500

What was Gonzalo's uncle's problem since he came to the United States?

He couldn't communicate in English, so he became like a baby who had to be taken care of; he lost his dignity.

500

Kim showed Wendell that although he feels that he can't change the world, there is something he can change. What is it?

He can put his time and effort into changing this trashy lot into a growing garden; he can do that instead of complaining about the world he can't change.

500
What is Sae young's contribution to the garden?
Got 3 funnels to fill the water containers, and others began to use them to help with the water problem.
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