Land Conservation Builds Community

Peter Forbes of the Trust for Public Land offers an essay about how land conservation can change a community.

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March 27, 2002, 5:00 AM PST

"Suke was 28 and had arrived with her two daughters just four months before from a refugee camp on the Thai border; they were waiting for her husband to join her in Providence. While she waited, she gardened. Every day she would walk two miles through a city she didnt know to a place that had become very important to her. At the end of our time together, Suke held my hand for a moment and told me that this urban garden had made her feel at home in America."

Thanks to Simmons Buntin

FULL STORY: On Finding Home

Tuesday, March 26, 2002 in Terrain

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