The Queens Community has truly made the garden on 69th Street their home during the 2022 Spring-Summer Farming season!  As a safe space for collective gardening and community engagement, the New Roots Community Garden (NRCG) has beautifully flourished and become firmly rooted in the Queens Community.  

Students in the Charlottesville area participated in a workshop on understanding the power or working with people different from themselves.

Akeel’s art mixes darkness and light to reflect the struggle and hope of the refugee experience. But there is more. As Akeel puts it, he wants his art to communicate that “the Iraqi people love peace, art, and liberty, not war.”