Og-Woi People's Orchard and Garden Brings Peace For Some, Headaches For Others - KUER 90.1

The Og-woi People’s Orchard and Garden was built in May 2020 just north of the Jordan River in Salt Lake City’s Fairpark neighborhood.

This week, lemon cucumbers hung on vines amid buzzing bees and a cat that was stalking bugs. Vibrant flowers surround a mural that memorializes Margarita Satini, a community organizer who died from COVID-19 last year.

Community members, like Adair Kovac, come and tend to the garden every Sunday.

“It's a gift,” Kovac said. “It's a gift that the plants give to us, that the insects and plants give to each other, and that we can be in community with one another.”

The garden isn’t technically permitted by Salt Lake City, so the city’s public lands department is now undertaking a formal approval process that includes public engagement.

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Tom King, one of the garden’s organizers, waters some flowers around a mural of community organizer Margarita Satini.

Tom King, the garden’s founder, said it was initially built as an act of civil disobedience to draw attention to climate change. For him, there’s a deeper meaning, too.

“It's a place to practice the lesson that human beings need to learn and that is simply to care about all of the web of life,” King said. “If the web of life is damaged too much, then this biosphere we call planet Earth will no longer support [us].”

But for some residents, like Brook Bernier, the garden has been the source of a major headache.

She believes a water spigot and an extension cord that was previously there enabled homeless encampments on the Jordan River to grow. Additionally, because the garden isn’t permitted by the city, she said there’s no one who can address concerns about safety.

“There needs to be accountability because there needs to be a way that we can voice our concerns if things are happening,” Bernier said. “That we have somewhere to go if we have an encampment that grows to 200 people again.”

She said she doesn’t want to “destroy the garden,” but she would like it to be run by an organization with more oversight of what happens there.

The public can comment on the garden through a survey until 5 p.m. on Oct. 1.

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