Lemon Tree Trust
@lemontreetrust.bsky.social
We support gardening activities in displaced communities as a way to restore dignity, purpose, connection and belonging and cultural identity #OneGardenAtATime 🌱🍋 https://lemontreetrust.org/
Imagine the smell of fresh bread drifting through the garden while your hands are in the soil 🍞🌿
In Gawilan camp, our Hêvî community gardeners bake bread in traditional tannour ovens, sometimes topped with red pepper, zaatar, olive oil or sesame & nigella seeds 😋
Thanks for making this possible 🫶
In Gawilan camp, our Hêvî community gardeners bake bread in traditional tannour ovens, sometimes topped with red pepper, zaatar, olive oil or sesame & nigella seeds 😋
Thanks for making this possible 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Imagine the smell of fresh bread drifting through the garden while your hands are in the soil 🍞🌿
In Gawilan camp, our Hêvî community gardeners bake bread in traditional tannour ovens, sometimes topped with red pepper, zaatar, olive oil or sesame & nigella seeds 😋
Thanks for making this possible 🫶
In Gawilan camp, our Hêvî community gardeners bake bread in traditional tannour ovens, sometimes topped with red pepper, zaatar, olive oil or sesame & nigella seeds 😋
Thanks for making this possible 🫶
Plenty of happy smiles from our gardeners of the future!
In the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp, young hands work alongside their mums, tending raised beds, harvesting herbs, aubergines, radishes, leafy greens, flowers and more 🥬💐
In the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp, young hands work alongside their mums, tending raised beds, harvesting herbs, aubergines, radishes, leafy greens, flowers and more 🥬💐
October 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Plenty of happy smiles from our gardeners of the future!
In the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp, young hands work alongside their mums, tending raised beds, harvesting herbs, aubergines, radishes, leafy greens, flowers and more 🥬💐
In the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp, young hands work alongside their mums, tending raised beds, harvesting herbs, aubergines, radishes, leafy greens, flowers and more 🥬💐
Brighten your inbox with our September email newsletter 💌
1. Meet Rûken, one of our Garden Facilitators
2. Check out the new portacabin and upgrades at the Hêvî Community Garden
…and more!
Landing tomorrow, 30th September! Subscribe now: lemontreetrust.org/newsletter/#...
1. Meet Rûken, one of our Garden Facilitators
2. Check out the new portacabin and upgrades at the Hêvî Community Garden
…and more!
Landing tomorrow, 30th September! Subscribe now: lemontreetrust.org/newsletter/#...
September 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Brighten your inbox with our September email newsletter 💌
1. Meet Rûken, one of our Garden Facilitators
2. Check out the new portacabin and upgrades at the Hêvî Community Garden
…and more!
Landing tomorrow, 30th September! Subscribe now: lemontreetrust.org/newsletter/#...
1. Meet Rûken, one of our Garden Facilitators
2. Check out the new portacabin and upgrades at the Hêvî Community Garden
…and more!
Landing tomorrow, 30th September! Subscribe now: lemontreetrust.org/newsletter/#...
Our beloved Annual Garden Competitions are back! 🏆🌿🎉
Seven garden parties across Kurdistan are celebrating the creativity and dedication residents put into their beautiful home gardens.
Winners receive a certificate, cash prize & Sidra Blend Tea, with time to connect over cake & refreshments 🍰☕
Seven garden parties across Kurdistan are celebrating the creativity and dedication residents put into their beautiful home gardens.
Winners receive a certificate, cash prize & Sidra Blend Tea, with time to connect over cake & refreshments 🍰☕
September 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Our beloved Annual Garden Competitions are back! 🏆🌿🎉
Seven garden parties across Kurdistan are celebrating the creativity and dedication residents put into their beautiful home gardens.
Winners receive a certificate, cash prize & Sidra Blend Tea, with time to connect over cake & refreshments 🍰☕
Seven garden parties across Kurdistan are celebrating the creativity and dedication residents put into their beautiful home gardens.
Winners receive a certificate, cash prize & Sidra Blend Tea, with time to connect over cake & refreshments 🍰☕
Back in March, the garden produced 250kg of food per month.
Now, harvests have quadrupled to 1000kg! 🙌
Each plate of summer veg, including okra, molokhia, courgettes & peppers, is feeding families and strengthening our community.
Thank you for helping Hêvî flourish 🤗💚
Now, harvests have quadrupled to 1000kg! 🙌
Each plate of summer veg, including okra, molokhia, courgettes & peppers, is feeding families and strengthening our community.
Thank you for helping Hêvî flourish 🤗💚
August 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Back in March, the garden produced 250kg of food per month.
Now, harvests have quadrupled to 1000kg! 🙌
Each plate of summer veg, including okra, molokhia, courgettes & peppers, is feeding families and strengthening our community.
Thank you for helping Hêvî flourish 🤗💚
Now, harvests have quadrupled to 1000kg! 🙌
Each plate of summer veg, including okra, molokhia, courgettes & peppers, is feeding families and strengthening our community.
Thank you for helping Hêvî flourish 🤗💚
New this season:
– 2 shaded rest areas where women share tea & seeds 🌿
– Protective polytunnels & drip irrigation 💧
– Shaded walkways, flower planters & gravel paths 🌸
– 2 shaded rest areas where women share tea & seeds 🌿
– Protective polytunnels & drip irrigation 💧
– Shaded walkways, flower planters & gravel paths 🌸
August 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New this season:
– 2 shaded rest areas where women share tea & seeds 🌿
– Protective polytunnels & drip irrigation 💧
– Shaded walkways, flower planters & gravel paths 🌸
– 2 shaded rest areas where women share tea & seeds 🌿
– Protective polytunnels & drip irrigation 💧
– Shaded walkways, flower planters & gravel paths 🌸
Our garden keeps growing, despite the intense 45°C heat! 🌞
Thanks to your incredible support, the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp is thriving, even during the hottest days of summer 💚💛
#GrowingHope #CommunityGarden #WithRefugees
Thanks to your incredible support, the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp is thriving, even during the hottest days of summer 💚💛
#GrowingHope #CommunityGarden #WithRefugees
August 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Our garden keeps growing, despite the intense 45°C heat! 🌞
Thanks to your incredible support, the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp is thriving, even during the hottest days of summer 💚💛
#GrowingHope #CommunityGarden #WithRefugees
Thanks to your incredible support, the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp is thriving, even during the hottest days of summer 💚💛
#GrowingHope #CommunityGarden #WithRefugees
Celebrating our Garden of the Month standout home gardens 🌿🥇
From 9 refugee & IDP camps in Kurdistan, these gardeners are building a sense of home, one plant at a time.
Winning gardens 🌱👇
Plaques, seeds & fruit trees awarded.
#GardenOfTheMonth #WithRefugees #GrowingHome
From 9 refugee & IDP camps in Kurdistan, these gardeners are building a sense of home, one plant at a time.
Winning gardens 🌱👇
Plaques, seeds & fruit trees awarded.
#GardenOfTheMonth #WithRefugees #GrowingHome
July 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Celebrating our Garden of the Month standout home gardens 🌿🥇
From 9 refugee & IDP camps in Kurdistan, these gardeners are building a sense of home, one plant at a time.
Winning gardens 🌱👇
Plaques, seeds & fruit trees awarded.
#GardenOfTheMonth #WithRefugees #GrowingHome
From 9 refugee & IDP camps in Kurdistan, these gardeners are building a sense of home, one plant at a time.
Winning gardens 🌱👇
Plaques, seeds & fruit trees awarded.
#GardenOfTheMonth #WithRefugees #GrowingHome
"The scent carries us back to the good memories of what we have lost" – Aveen
When Aveen fled Syria she carried her family's healing plant knowledge with her. Now our operations manager in Kurdistan she brews Sidra Tea daily bringing gardeners together.
☕ Recipe: lemontreetrust.org/news/cultiva...
When Aveen fled Syria she carried her family's healing plant knowledge with her. Now our operations manager in Kurdistan she brews Sidra Tea daily bringing gardeners together.
☕ Recipe: lemontreetrust.org/news/cultiva...
July 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"The scent carries us back to the good memories of what we have lost" – Aveen
When Aveen fled Syria she carried her family's healing plant knowledge with her. Now our operations manager in Kurdistan she brews Sidra Tea daily bringing gardeners together.
☕ Recipe: lemontreetrust.org/news/cultiva...
When Aveen fled Syria she carried her family's healing plant knowledge with her. Now our operations manager in Kurdistan she brews Sidra Tea daily bringing gardeners together.
☕ Recipe: lemontreetrust.org/news/cultiva...
Guljin grows okra & hot peppers in the Hêvî Commnunity Garden and bakes traditional Syrian bread in our bakery house🌶️🍞
“While the dough rises, I water my plants and harvest what’s ready. It brings me such joy and peace.”
lemontreetrust.org/news/hevi-co...
#WomenWhoGrow #WithRefugees
“While the dough rises, I water my plants and harvest what’s ready. It brings me such joy and peace.”
lemontreetrust.org/news/hevi-co...
#WomenWhoGrow #WithRefugees
June 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Guljin grows okra & hot peppers in the Hêvî Commnunity Garden and bakes traditional Syrian bread in our bakery house🌶️🍞
“While the dough rises, I water my plants and harvest what’s ready. It brings me such joy and peace.”
lemontreetrust.org/news/hevi-co...
#WomenWhoGrow #WithRefugees
“While the dough rises, I water my plants and harvest what’s ready. It brings me such joy and peace.”
lemontreetrust.org/news/hevi-co...
#WomenWhoGrow #WithRefugees
We don’t just grow gardens, we grow belonging 💚
Help us fund items like shaded rest areas, refreshments & a polytunnel for the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp, where temperatures regularly reach 45°C.
justgiving.com/lemontreetrust
Thank you.
#GardensOfHope #WithRefugees #WorldRefugeeDay
Help us fund items like shaded rest areas, refreshments & a polytunnel for the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp, where temperatures regularly reach 45°C.
justgiving.com/lemontreetrust
Thank you.
#GardensOfHope #WithRefugees #WorldRefugeeDay
June 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We don’t just grow gardens, we grow belonging 💚
Help us fund items like shaded rest areas, refreshments & a polytunnel for the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp, where temperatures regularly reach 45°C.
justgiving.com/lemontreetrust
Thank you.
#GardensOfHope #WithRefugees #WorldRefugeeDay
Help us fund items like shaded rest areas, refreshments & a polytunnel for the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp, where temperatures regularly reach 45°C.
justgiving.com/lemontreetrust
Thank you.
#GardensOfHope #WithRefugees #WorldRefugeeDay
On #WorldRefugeeDay we stand with people rebuilding life after displacement to plant seeds of hope, memory and connection.
#CommunityAsASuperPower #CommunityGardening
#CommunityAsASuperPower #CommunityGardening
June 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
On #WorldRefugeeDay we stand with people rebuilding life after displacement to plant seeds of hope, memory and connection.
#CommunityAsASuperPower #CommunityGardening
#CommunityAsASuperPower #CommunityGardening
What are you growing, creating or building in your own garden or community this week?
We’d love to hear – share it in the comments!
#CommunityGardening #GrowingHope #WithRefugees
We’d love to hear – share it in the comments!
#CommunityGardening #GrowingHope #WithRefugees
June 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
What are you growing, creating or building in your own garden or community this week?
We’d love to hear – share it in the comments!
#CommunityGardening #GrowingHope #WithRefugees
We’d love to hear – share it in the comments!
#CommunityGardening #GrowingHope #WithRefugees
Next: we’re raising $960 USD / £710 GBP / €846 EUR to make the space more inclusive + heat resilient ahead of the summer.
🌳 Shaded rest area
🍵 Tea & snacks
🌱 Polytunnel for year round growing
(Temperatures regularly reach 45°C)
Can you help? Donate: www.justgiving.com/lemontreetrust
Thank you.
🌳 Shaded rest area
🍵 Tea & snacks
🌱 Polytunnel for year round growing
(Temperatures regularly reach 45°C)
Can you help? Donate: www.justgiving.com/lemontreetrust
Thank you.
June 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Next: we’re raising $960 USD / £710 GBP / €846 EUR to make the space more inclusive + heat resilient ahead of the summer.
🌳 Shaded rest area
🍵 Tea & snacks
🌱 Polytunnel for year round growing
(Temperatures regularly reach 45°C)
Can you help? Donate: www.justgiving.com/lemontreetrust
Thank you.
🌳 Shaded rest area
🍵 Tea & snacks
🌱 Polytunnel for year round growing
(Temperatures regularly reach 45°C)
Can you help? Donate: www.justgiving.com/lemontreetrust
Thank you.
Fresh from the garden: new photos from Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp, snapped today! 📸🌿
🍅 92 beds full of produce
🧺 New benches built + painted
💧 Irrigation, walkways + lights added
#RefugeeWeek2025 #CommunityAsASuperpower
🍅 92 beds full of produce
🧺 New benches built + painted
💧 Irrigation, walkways + lights added
#RefugeeWeek2025 #CommunityAsASuperpower
June 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Fresh from the garden: new photos from Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp, snapped today! 📸🌿
🍅 92 beds full of produce
🧺 New benches built + painted
💧 Irrigation, walkways + lights added
#RefugeeWeek2025 #CommunityAsASuperpower
🍅 92 beds full of produce
🧺 New benches built + painted
💧 Irrigation, walkways + lights added
#RefugeeWeek2025 #CommunityAsASuperpower
Some snaps from the past few weeks of our amazing community gardeners tending to their growing beds.
When we come together, great things grow – in the garden and beyond 🌱
That’s the power of community. Thank you for being a part of it!
#CommunityGardening #CommunityAsASuperpower
When we come together, great things grow – in the garden and beyond 🌱
That’s the power of community. Thank you for being a part of it!
#CommunityGardening #CommunityAsASuperpower
June 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Some snaps from the past few weeks of our amazing community gardeners tending to their growing beds.
When we come together, great things grow – in the garden and beyond 🌱
That’s the power of community. Thank you for being a part of it!
#CommunityGardening #CommunityAsASuperpower
When we come together, great things grow – in the garden and beyond 🌱
That’s the power of community. Thank you for being a part of it!
#CommunityGardening #CommunityAsASuperpower
May in full bloom at our Azadî Community Garden in Domiz 1 camp! 🌿🌸
So much beautiful produce is flourishing, thanks to you.
This garden truly wouldn’t grow without your support 💛
#GrowingTogether #GrowingHope #OneGardenAtATime
So much beautiful produce is flourishing, thanks to you.
This garden truly wouldn’t grow without your support 💛
#GrowingTogether #GrowingHope #OneGardenAtATime
June 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
May in full bloom at our Azadî Community Garden in Domiz 1 camp! 🌿🌸
So much beautiful produce is flourishing, thanks to you.
This garden truly wouldn’t grow without your support 💛
#GrowingTogether #GrowingHope #OneGardenAtATime
So much beautiful produce is flourishing, thanks to you.
This garden truly wouldn’t grow without your support 💛
#GrowingTogether #GrowingHope #OneGardenAtATime
Growing hope in your inbox, one email at a time! 🌱
Our refreshed newsletter now lands monthly with stories & snapshots from displaced communities.
Get: 🌳 personal stories 🥕 impact pics 🌍 project peeks 🤝 ways to help.
Sign up before the April issue lands! lemontreetrust.org/home/newslet...
Our refreshed newsletter now lands monthly with stories & snapshots from displaced communities.
Get: 🌳 personal stories 🥕 impact pics 🌍 project peeks 🤝 ways to help.
Sign up before the April issue lands! lemontreetrust.org/home/newslet...
April 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Growing hope in your inbox, one email at a time! 🌱
Our refreshed newsletter now lands monthly with stories & snapshots from displaced communities.
Get: 🌳 personal stories 🥕 impact pics 🌍 project peeks 🤝 ways to help.
Sign up before the April issue lands! lemontreetrust.org/home/newslet...
Our refreshed newsletter now lands monthly with stories & snapshots from displaced communities.
Get: 🌳 personal stories 🥕 impact pics 🌍 project peeks 🤝 ways to help.
Sign up before the April issue lands! lemontreetrust.org/home/newslet...
Big cheers for our nine March Garden of the Month winners! 🏆🌱
Through sheer hard work and creativity, they’re greening homes and neighbourhoods in camps across the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Each winner gets seeds, a fruit tree and a plaque!
#OneGardenAtATime #WithRefugees #WithIDPs
Through sheer hard work and creativity, they’re greening homes and neighbourhoods in camps across the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Each winner gets seeds, a fruit tree and a plaque!
#OneGardenAtATime #WithRefugees #WithIDPs
April 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Big cheers for our nine March Garden of the Month winners! 🏆🌱
Through sheer hard work and creativity, they’re greening homes and neighbourhoods in camps across the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Each winner gets seeds, a fruit tree and a plaque!
#OneGardenAtATime #WithRefugees #WithIDPs
Through sheer hard work and creativity, they’re greening homes and neighbourhoods in camps across the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Each winner gets seeds, a fruit tree and a plaque!
#OneGardenAtATime #WithRefugees #WithIDPs
Spring vibes! March highlights from Azadî Community Garden 🌸🌿
🥬 Abundant produce – our garden is thriving!
🔥 Newroz celebrations – traditional clothes, dancing & the Newroz torch.
🍞 Khubz (Syrian flatbread) baked & shared with families.
🐢 Surprise visitor – a tortoise in the garden!
#WithRefugees
🥬 Abundant produce – our garden is thriving!
🔥 Newroz celebrations – traditional clothes, dancing & the Newroz torch.
🍞 Khubz (Syrian flatbread) baked & shared with families.
🐢 Surprise visitor – a tortoise in the garden!
#WithRefugees
April 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Spring vibes! March highlights from Azadî Community Garden 🌸🌿
🥬 Abundant produce – our garden is thriving!
🔥 Newroz celebrations – traditional clothes, dancing & the Newroz torch.
🍞 Khubz (Syrian flatbread) baked & shared with families.
🐢 Surprise visitor – a tortoise in the garden!
#WithRefugees
🥬 Abundant produce – our garden is thriving!
🔥 Newroz celebrations – traditional clothes, dancing & the Newroz torch.
🍞 Khubz (Syrian flatbread) baked & shared with families.
🐢 Surprise visitor – a tortoise in the garden!
#WithRefugees
Look at the garden grow! 🌱✨
A few weeks ago, we planted the first seeds in Hêvî Community Garden (meaning hope in Kurdish), in Gawilan refugee camp.
Now, the raised beds are flourishing with fresh vegetables and herbs! 🥬🧅🌿
#GrowingHope #WithRefugees
A few weeks ago, we planted the first seeds in Hêvî Community Garden (meaning hope in Kurdish), in Gawilan refugee camp.
Now, the raised beds are flourishing with fresh vegetables and herbs! 🥬🧅🌿
#GrowingHope #WithRefugees
February 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Look at the garden grow! 🌱✨
A few weeks ago, we planted the first seeds in Hêvî Community Garden (meaning hope in Kurdish), in Gawilan refugee camp.
Now, the raised beds are flourishing with fresh vegetables and herbs! 🥬🧅🌿
#GrowingHope #WithRefugees
A few weeks ago, we planted the first seeds in Hêvî Community Garden (meaning hope in Kurdish), in Gawilan refugee camp.
Now, the raised beds are flourishing with fresh vegetables and herbs! 🥬🧅🌿
#GrowingHope #WithRefugees
Roasting homegrown aubergines in the Azadî Community Garden bread oven – perfect for the dip, Baba Ganoush 🔥🍆👩🍳
Community-grown ingredients = great food!
Have you tried Baba Ganoush? Did you like it?
#TogetherWeGrow
Community-grown ingredients = great food!
Have you tried Baba Ganoush? Did you like it?
#TogetherWeGrow
February 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Roasting homegrown aubergines in the Azadî Community Garden bread oven – perfect for the dip, Baba Ganoush 🔥🍆👩🍳
Community-grown ingredients = great food!
Have you tried Baba Ganoush? Did you like it?
#TogetherWeGrow
Community-grown ingredients = great food!
Have you tried Baba Ganoush? Did you like it?
#TogetherWeGrow
Fresh from the Azadî Community Garden!
These vibrant radishes are more than nutritious and tasty food – they represent resilience, community and the joy of growing together 💚
Who else is growing their own? Share your harvest with us, #TogetherWeGrow
These vibrant radishes are more than nutritious and tasty food – they represent resilience, community and the joy of growing together 💚
Who else is growing their own? Share your harvest with us, #TogetherWeGrow
January 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Fresh from the Azadî Community Garden!
These vibrant radishes are more than nutritious and tasty food – they represent resilience, community and the joy of growing together 💚
Who else is growing their own? Share your harvest with us, #TogetherWeGrow
These vibrant radishes are more than nutritious and tasty food – they represent resilience, community and the joy of growing together 💚
Who else is growing their own? Share your harvest with us, #TogetherWeGrow
Congratulations to our 9 Garden of the Month winners! 🏆🌹
Their creativity and dedication are transforming refugee & internally displaced people camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq into greener, more vibrant spaces 🌿
What do you love most about these gardens?
Their creativity and dedication are transforming refugee & internally displaced people camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq into greener, more vibrant spaces 🌿
What do you love most about these gardens?
January 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Congratulations to our 9 Garden of the Month winners! 🏆🌹
Their creativity and dedication are transforming refugee & internally displaced people camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq into greener, more vibrant spaces 🌿
What do you love most about these gardens?
Their creativity and dedication are transforming refugee & internally displaced people camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq into greener, more vibrant spaces 🌿
What do you love most about these gardens?
In Hêvî, Othman, Roken and our gardeners have been busy planting these around the garden’s outskirts and along the fencing.
We can’t wait to see them thrive and bring even more green to the space!
What’s your favourite plant or tree? 🌱🌳
#WithRefugees #GardeningLove
January 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In Hêvî, Othman, Roken and our gardeners have been busy planting these around the garden’s outskirts and along the fencing.
We can’t wait to see them thrive and bring even more green to the space!
What’s your favourite plant or tree? 🌱🌳
#WithRefugees #GardeningLove