Xiem Busch-Vuong
Xiem Busch-Vuong (any pronouns) is a Teochew-Vietnamese-American butch lesbian from St. Paul. Despite graduating with a bachelor’s in Information Technology, she is an artist, an environmental outreach worker! She has experience in both vegetable and native pollinator gardening, along with basic orchard and arbor work. She was part of the SEAD storytellers cohort in 2020, an exhibited artist at Xia Gallery in 2021-2022, became a certified tree inspector 2024, and spoke at the Minnesota Shade Tree Short Course in 2025 on environmental outreach to diverse communities.
About the Project
St. Paul Community Garden Connect will help bridge the gap between generations by providing a platform for succession of garden spaces to trusted individuals. Data of the community gardens, at the discretion of the stewards, will be publicly available. This public accessibility will be a jumping off point for newcomers to the community garden sphere. The ultimate goal of this data collection and bridge building is to allow community gardens to pass from generation to generation with ease, increasing the lifespan of any community garden.