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Shiva, left, Renuka, center, and Prajapati Pokhrel of Bhutan work in their garden plot in the Global Garden Refugee Training Farm May 24, 2017, in the Albany Park neighborhood.
Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune
Shiva, left, Renuka, center, and Prajapati Pokhrel of Bhutan work in their garden plot in the Global Garden Refugee Training Farm May 24, 2017, in the Albany Park neighborhood.
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A community organization, the Global Garden Refugee Training Farm, has transformed an empty lot into patches of soil where refugee families can farm. Against the backdrop of a new political climate, in which President Donald Trump has called for the reduction in the number of refugees admitted to the U.S., the farmers here on the Northwest Side find comfort and purpose in the digging, planting and harvesting that made up their life’s work in their home countries.