Hey everybody, before we jump into the episode, I wanted to let you know about a really special event that's coming up on Palm Sunday, which is March 29th.

We're going to be gathering in the tabernacle on Temple Square at 7 p.m. for a Palm Sunday musical celebration.

This year, the Salt Lake Central Steak is sponsoring the Luke's Choir and Orchestra, and it's going to be a beautiful evening of sacred music as we begin

Holy Week together. This event is free and open to the public, and we would truly love to see

you there. Karen Washington was a physical therapist and a single mom who dreamed of having

her own house in the Bronx. She was able to make this dream come true, but it turned

into what she called a nightmare because of the abandoned lot across from her home. It began

feeling with garbage, got infested with rats, and became a place where bad things happened.

But her story turned into a different kind of dream when she saw a neighbor, Jose Lugo, starting to clear the lot.

She told me that my eyes lit up like a Christmas tree, and she said, what are you doing?

And he says, I'm trying to clear the trash to plant a community garden.

Do you want to help? And she said, yes, can I help?

This is author Pete Davis, who related Washington's story in his book, Dedicated,

The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing.

And what they did is they started organizing the whole neighborhood.

They cleared all the trash.

They started planting.

Suddenly they had a garden with corn and squash and kale and collared beans and cantaloupe.

Eventually they got connected with all the other people doing community gardens all

across the city. Welcome to the farmers market, the La Famer's Market. This is Washington in

apparent earth feature, describing how the garden became the launching point for a farmer's market.

He sat down, mapped it out, and then got four farmers who were willing to come to our neighborhood and got it started.

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