{"id":10155,"date":"2022-10-01T13:12:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/?page_id=10155"},"modified":"2022-10-01T13:12:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:12:27","slug":"community-garden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/community-garden","title":{"rendered":"Community Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><b><span style=\"color: green; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Times;\"><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Usually refers to Memorial United Methodist Church of Clovis, CA.'>Memorial<\/abbr> United Methodist Church, Clovis<br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\"><b><span style=\"color: #008000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Georgia, Times;\">Hmong Garden Ministry<\/span><\/b><\/span><b><\/b><\/h2>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/gardsign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10159 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/gardsign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #000080;\">In 1999, as a mission for the neighborhood Hmong refugees, <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Memorial United Methodist Church, 1726 Pollasky Ave, Clovis CA 93612'><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Usually refers to Memorial United Methodist Church of Clovis, CA.'>Memorial<\/abbr> UMC<\/abbr> established a garden for them on an unused portion of the property. It has continued to thrive to this day with continued support of <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Memorial United Methodist Church, 1726 Pollasky Ave, Clovis CA 93612'><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Usually refers to Memorial United Methodist Church of Clovis, CA.'>Memorial<\/abbr> UMC<\/abbr> and Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (<abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Fresno Interdenominational Ministries'>FIRM<\/abbr>).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Article from the Clovis Independent, Week of October 1 – 7, 1999:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300; font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Over a six month period 10 Hmong gardeners, in partnership with leaders from Clovis, the Master Gardeners Program, Fresno State’s Irrigation Department, and others, leveled the almost half-acre lot on Scott Avenue, dug a 400-foot trench for irrigation piping and planted more than 70 rows of peas, beans, corn, onions and other vegetables. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">By July, the first few sprouts had burst from the soil. Now the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">families take home bags of produce daily. “It has been humbling to see how <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">hard they worked,” <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Usually refers to Memorial United Methodist Church of Clovis, CA.'>Memorial<\/abbr> Pastor Denice Leslie said. “They’ve taught us <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">a lot about community.”<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">“Houa Lee knows how much this means to the Hmong community in Clovis. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Lee witnessed the horrible chaos in Laos after the Vietnam War. She saw <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">her family massacred and watched others starve as they hid in fear of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">killing bullets and crushing blows. She fled to the United States, like <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">many Hmong people, in hopes of finding food, shelter and comfort. She said <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">this plot of Clovis land gives her and her friends more than just food. It <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">gives them a job to do, something they remember from Laos and something to <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">be proud of.”<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/gardenprepbig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/gardenprepbig-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/gardenprepbig-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/gardenprepbig.jpg 548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/gardenworkersbig-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/gardenworkersbig-1-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/gardenworkersbig-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/gardenworkersbig-1.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Usually refers to Memorial United Methodist Church of Clovis, CA.'>Memorial<\/abbr> United Methodist Church, Clovis Hmong Garden Ministry In 1999, as a mission for the neighborhood Hmong refugees, <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Memorial United Methodist Church, 1726 Pollasky Ave, Clovis CA 93612'><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Usually refers to Memorial United Methodist Church of Clovis, CA.'>Memorial<\/abbr> UMC<\/abbr> established a garden for them on an unused portion of the property. It has continued to thrive to this day with continued support of <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Memorial United Methodist Church, 1726 Pollasky Ave, Clovis CA 93612'><abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Usually refers to Memorial United Methodist Church of Clovis, CA.'>Memorial<\/abbr> UMC<\/abbr> and Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (<abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Fresno Interdenominational Ministries'>FIRM<\/abbr>). 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