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In the trellis-filled garden, a patchwork of small lots that are passed from family to family, they find friends, a routine for daily life in new surroundings and familiar vegetables that are fresher than anything they find in local markets.

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"The sun is shining. I'm sweating. It's good," said 63-year-old Zhang Zaixian, of Beijing Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG Storm Blue White Blue Cheap , who was watering chives one day as her grandson attended preschool. "I am happy."


The urban garden began taking shape a decade ago, a product of the expatriate community that has sprouted along with soaring numbers of students from China.


About a quarter of all international students at Yale come from China, which has become the biggest source country by far for international students in the United States. Yale, which in 1854 graduated the first Chinese person to earn a degree from a U.S. college, had 680 international scholars, 516 graduate students and 58 undergraduates from China last year.


The gardeners come from a mix of urban and rural areas and abide by a few unwritten rules. Fertilizer is allowed Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG Black White Wholesale Jordan , but pesticides are forbidden. Remove watering cans and clean up in the fall. Find another family to work your patch when you leave New Haven.


Zhang, whose daughter earned a Ph.D. in China before coming to do research at the Yale School of Medicine, said she had never done any gardening at home in China's capital, where she had a career keeping statistics for industry and the navy. Zhang's health had been waning before she first came to Connecticut, in 2009, but she said tending to plants each day under smog-free skies has made her feel renewed.


The garden succeeds Mens Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG Yin Yang White Black Cheap Jordan Shoes , she said, because the gardeners belong to an older generation that has patience.


"Young people don't want to do the labor," she said.