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Mi jardin – My garden

Ruth is a Venezuelan migrant who fled from her country to seek asylum in the UK with her immediate family, leaving many behind. She worked as a teacher for 24 years and applied her creativity in teaching preschool kids. During the pandemic lockdown she started gardening, growing flowers and vegetables for first time in UK. In this audio she relates her experience. (In Spanish.)

Mi jardin – My garden (audio 1)

Spanish: En este tiempo del coronavirus, he tratado de hacer cosas de calidad o emplearme de la mejor forma el tiempo. Una de las cosas que me gusta es la jardinería, y pues comencé. ¿Y si es sembrando? Haciendo semilleros de los vegetales que comemos. Después, una amiga me trajo unas semillitas y así he ido, y les quiero mostrar, mire. Aquí estoy dentro del invernadero, me da com. Eh, bastantes hortalizas. Todas son comestibles. Trae tomate, hay rabanitos, hay lechugas. Ay, eh, cilantro. Está uno germinando, cilantro bonito y también en la huerta tengo papas, ¿verdad? Es que hay unas fresas que están germinando. Y es aquí donde paso algunas horas. Al sol, ve, porque ya está más grande. En verdad, esto es como una terapia; me relaja mucho ver cómo crecen. Y pues, también podemos comer lo más sano. Esto es una de las cosas a las que le dedico más tiempo y me encanta. Me relajan, me divierten y puedo compartir con otros mi experiencia.

English (translation): In this time of coronavirus, I have tried to do quality things or use my time in the best way. One of the things I like is gardening, and so I started. What if it is sowing? Making seedbeds for the vegetables we eat. Later, a friend brought me some seeds and that's how I went, and I want to show you, look. Here I am inside the greenhouse, it gives me com. Hey, plenty of vegetables. They are all edible. Bring tomatoes, there are radishes, there are lettuces. Oh, uh, cilantro. There is one sprouting, nice cilantro and I also have potatoes in the garden, right? There are some strawberries that are germinating. And this is where I spend a few hours. Go to the sun, because it is already bigger. Truly, this is like therapy; It really relaxes me to see how they grow. And well, we can also eat the healthiest. This is one of the things I dedicate the most time to and I love it. They relax me, they have fun and I can share my experience with others.