Salt Lake City is home to over 35,000 refugees and thankfully there are a plethora of programs to introduce these newcomers to living in Utah and give them resources to be successful. The Bud Bailey Apartment complex in downtown SLC provides affordable housing to the refugee community. We partnered with Bare Bones to provide garden beds, tools and seeds to the children’s garden in the complex.

Our board member Thurl Bailey and his daughter Breelle joined for the inaugural dirt-digging and planted alongside the new gardeners. Deseret News wrote a great article and captured the excitement of the day in this write-up. We’re excited that the families who live there can grow their own food and be sustained from their own hands. This is what Tifie is about – giving people tools to provide for themselves and their families.