Chinatown-International District's happiest corner: How this neighborhood garden keeps community...

Summer at the Danny Woo Community Garden is spectacular. Sunlight slides through bright green foliage and everything is in full bloom. This is the largest green space in the Chinatown-International District, spanning roughly 2.5 acres.

The garden’s most vibrant members are a lively bunch of elders who tend to the 80 vegetable and flower plots that line the terraced garden.

One morning in June, a group of community elders is assembled around a wooden table by the entrance gate of the garden. They bicker and burst into laughter as a fellow gardener comes by the table and playfully accuses another gardener of taking her plants.

Kae-Li Deng, who manages the garden, translates the argument.