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Imagine the smell of fresh bread drifting through the garden while your hands are in the soil 🍞🌿 In Gawilan camp, our Hêvî community gardeners bake bread in traditional tannour ovens, sometimes topped with red pepper, zaatar, olive oil or sesame & nigella seeds 😋

Plenty of happy smiles from our gardeners of the future! In the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp, young hands work alongside their mums, tending raised beds, harvesting herbs, aubergines, radishes, leafy greens, flowers and more 🥬💐

Our beloved Annual Garden Competitions are back! 🎉 7 garden parties across Kurdistan are celebrating the creativity & dedication residents put into their beautiful home gardens. Winners receive a certificate, cash prize & Sidra Blend Tea, with time to connect over cake 🍰☕

Back in March, the garden produced 250kg of food per month. Now, harvests have quadrupled to 1000kg! 🙌 Each plate of summer veg, including okra, molokhia, courgettes & peppers, is feeding families and strengthening our community. Thank you for helping Hêvî flourish 🤗💚

New this season: – 2 shaded rest areas where women share tea & seeds 🌿 – Protective polytunnels & drip irrigation 💧 – Shaded walkways, flower planters & gravel paths 🌸

Our garden keeps growing, despite the intense 45°C heat! 🌞 Thanks to your incredible support, the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp is thriving, even during the hottest days of summer 💚💛 #GrowingHope #CommunityGarden #WithRefugees

Celebrating our Garden of the Month standout home gardens 🌿🥇 From 9 refugee & IDP camps in Kurdistan, these gardeners are building a sense of home, one plant at a time. Winning gardens 🌱👇 Plaques, seeds & fruit trees awarded. #GardenOfTheMonth #WithRefugees #GrowingHome

"The scent carries us back to good memories we lost" – Aveen When Aveen fled Syria she carried her family's healing plant knowledge. Now our operations manager in Kurdistan she brews Sidra Tea daily bringing gardeners together. ☕ Recipe: lemontreetrust.org/news/cultivati… #WithRefugees

Guljin grows okra & hot peppers in the Hêvî Commnunity Garden and bakes traditional Syrian bread in our bakery house🌶️🍞 “While the dough rises, I water my plants and harvest what’s ready. It brings me such joy and peace.” lemontreetrust.org/news/hevi-comm… #WomenWhoGrow #WithRefugees

We don’t just grow gardens, we grow belonging 💚 Help us fund items like shaded rest areas, refreshments & a polytunnel for the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp, where temperatures regularly reach 45°C. justgiving.com/lemontreetrust Thank you. #GardensOfHope #WithRefugees

On #WorldRefugeeDay we stand with people rebuilding life after displacement to plant seeds of hope, memory and connection. #CommunityAsASuperPower #CommunityGardening

What are you growing, creating or building in your own garden or community this week? We’d love to hear – share it in the comments! #CommunityGardening #GrowingHope #WithRefugees

Next: we’re raising $960 USD / £710 GBP / €846 EUR to make the space more inclusive + heat resilient ahead of the 45°C summer temperatures. 🌳 Shaded rest area 🍵 Refreshments 🌱 Polytunnel for year round growing Can you help? Donate: justgiving.com/lemontreetrust Thank you 💛

Fresh from the garden: new photos from Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp, snapped today! 📸🌿 🍅 92 beds full of produce 🧺 New picnic benches built + painted 💧 Irrigation, walkways + lights added #RefugeeWeek2025 #CommunityAsASuperpower

Some snaps from the past few weeks of our amazing community gardeners tending to their growing beds. When we come together, great things grow – in the garden and beyond 🌱 That’s the power of community. Thank you for being a part of it! #CommunityGarden #CommunityAsASuperpower

May in full bloom at our Azadî Community Garden in Domiz 1 camp! 🌿🌸 So much beautiful produce is flourishing, thanks to you. This garden truly wouldn’t grow without your support 💛 #GrowingTogether #GrowingHope #OneGardenAtATime

March’s winning gardens are in! 🏡🌿 Incredible work from home gardeners in camps across the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Greener spaces, brighter neighbourhoods 💚 Each of the nine winners receives a fruit tree, seeds and a plaque! #GardenOfTheMonth #WithRefugees #WithIDPs

Spring vibes! March highlights from Azadî Community Garden 🌸🌿 🥬 Abundant produce 🔥 Newroz celebrations – traditional clothes, dancing & the Newroz torch 🍞 Khubz (Syrian flatbread) baked & shared with families 🐢 A surprise visitor! #WithRefugees

Look at the garden grow! 🌱✨ A few weeks ago, we planted the first seeds in Hêvî Community Garden (meaning hope in Kurdish), in Gawilan refugee camp. Now, the raised beds are flourishing with fresh vegetables and herbs! 🥬🧅🌿 #GrowingHope #WithRefugees