In Detroit, a public garden thrives with help from an army of volunteers
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🗓️ 20 September 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Finally, tonight, as the end of summer nears a public garden in Michigan that evolves with the seasons, thanks to its meticulous design and an army of volunteer gardeners. |
| 0:10.0 | John Yang went to Detroit for our Arts and Culture series Canvas. |
| 0:14.0 | There are birds chirping. |
| 0:18.0 | Bees buzzing. |
| 0:21.6 | Flowers waving in the breeze. |
| 0:24.6 | Tucked away on Detroit's bell aisle, just minutes from downtown, |
| 0:28.6 | sits a three-acre public garden. |
| 0:31.6 | It's tended to by a ground screw that is almost entirely made up of volunteers. |
| 0:36.6 | I would say it's one of the retirement loves of my life. |
| 0:40.3 | Native Detroiter Linda McKenzie recently traded her stethoscope for a garden trowel. |
| 0:45.3 | If I were to describe what I did as a physician, |
| 0:49.3 | it was really about shepherding people to a better, you know, |
| 0:53.3 | level of health. |
| 0:56.2 | And so with gardens, it's shepherding the environment |
| 0:59.8 | to a better level of beauty. |
| 1:02.5 | Plants will tell you exactly how they feel. |
| 1:06.0 | You plant something and you can tell when the soil is right |
| 1:09.6 | and it's happy with the amount of sun. |
| 1:11.6 | And if it's not happy, yeah, it's going to die. |
| 1:14.6 | So they don't scream at you. |
| 1:17.6 | They don't argue. They just do what they do. |
| 1:20.6 | But where in Aldolf Garden, Detroit they would do it, was carefully plotted by Pete Aldo, the world-renowned |
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