Medo shared this update on July 2. (The caption reads "Day 8🍉"). Since his first plant post, he has recieved comments suggesting plant care tips and asking about where he gets the plants. Medo gets his sprouts from his cousin, who it appears has created a green house tent for growing plants in the displacement camp.
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I took some of @headspace-hotel 's advice and let a part of my front lawn go unmowed. I chose a spot that, two years ago, was just dry dust. But even though we planted grass seeds and all kinds of fertilizer, the patch is now lush and blooming with everything BUT grass.
I don't even have names for what is growing there; I've only ever known grass. There is some stuff with a bouncy texture that grows outwards more than upwards, and I think it is doing the most water retention. There are some things with long, tall stems and purple pigment in the center of their top leaves, like a proto-flower. And of course there are the vines that bloom white flowers.
The HOA of course mistook this menagerie as weeds and sent a letter wanting to cut it down. So to make it more clear the patch is deliberate, I put a decorative low fence around it.
And as I was installing it, I saw a TOAD. I have never seen that in suburbia before! Our great plains climate is typically too dry. I'd like to think it was because of the uncut patch that the toad found habitable, with more shade and more bugs.
This patch is significant to me now, and I really hope I am not forced to cut it. Something about the absolute fervor of how the plants are determined to grow and life itself to thrive when given the smallest space to do so spits in apathy's face.
Medo is a young man in Gaza who recently started caring for plants as a hobby. He shared this video on June 28.
His caption is "found me a new hobby!"
Before the genocide, Medo's Instagram focused on traveling, the gym, and time with friends. During high school, he was part of a student exchange program and lived for a year in Texas. He now shares scenes from his daily life as a displaced person in Gaza.
You can follow Medo on Instagram and Threads @ medo_halimy. You can donate to his GFM at this link.
Available Go Fund Me campaigns for people whose stories have been shared on watermelllonarchive can be found in the resources post.