Linked by Michael LevenstonParticipants of the “Family Garden” project tend their vegetable plots at the Taiyuan Botanical Garden in Shanxi province. Xu is a professor at a top university in Shanxi province. This year, the young couple discovered an unusual form of stress relief: becoming “garden owners” in the “Family Garden” project at the Taiyuan Botanical Garden in Shanxi. Their home is far from the botanical garden and they can only visit about once every two weeks. “We rarely get to see vegetables in their natural growing state,” Xu said, examining a radish ready for harvest in their plot.