Or Shalom’s Biblical Garden

Or Shalom has a biblical garden, or gan in Hebrew, at our home on 10^th and Fraser. The Garden is inspired by the plants and flora mentioned in the Torah and native to the Land of Israel, including wheat, barley, figs and grapes. It also features flowers, bushes and trees native to the Pacific Northwest, and lavender for samim during Havdallah and horseradish for maror at Passover. The wheat is being grown with the support of the Environmental Youth Alliance and their Lawns to Loaves Project, in particular. For more information about the history and botany of our gan, please read the article about it that was recently published in the Jewish Independent.

Here are pictures from our most recent Garden Work Party. We always encourage new people, with green thumbs or without, to come help our garden. Please contact Ben Harris to get involved.

	Marking the boundaries of the wheat plot
Michael Mann turns the sod in preparation for the wheat while Kiki Lipset weeds and fertilizes the grapes
	Ben Harris, Valerie Lev Dolgin, and Kiki Lipset turn the sod in preparation for the barley. This strain of barley has been used by member Carol Konkin's family farm since the 1890s!
Valerie and Kiki spread compost on the barley plot

	Every blade of wheat has its angel bending over it whispering "Grow, grow"
Carol Konkin sows the wheat
	The "soup garden" grows carrots, parsnips, onions, leeks, garlic, kohlrabi, rutabagas, celery, celeriac, parsley, dill, and thyme

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