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Sijo Zachariah and his father began their garden at the beginning of the pandemic, when the stress of food security prompted them to take action. Little did they know that the garden would feed a community and change the course of Zachariah’s life. He and his father used seeds from food from the grocery store and used passed down knowledge from Zachariah’s grandfather and YouTube videos to cultivate his garden.

Editor's note: This is part of a four-story package on Quartzsite, Arizona — a snowbird mecca that draws a huge cross-section of Americans, including hundreds of retired Latter-day Saints.

Simple decorations for a tea party on a spring day. A garden party is most elegant when decorations are kept simple.

With limited space and usually no yard of one's own, a college student would seem the least likely of green thumbs. But with a few tools even the most cramped of quarters can house fresh veggies to the occupant's delight.