Jensen Lane Community Garden

10/16/2014

Busy weekend!! 100 degree heat but faithful friends and family still came and supported the fundraiser. Thanks to all!! You donated enough money for 3 or 4 heart surgeries!!

10/11/2014

Pre-dawn preparation for the Heart's of East Africa Fundraiser. Going to be a hot weekend! Cool drinks and Mister will help!, Jumpee for the kids. Wine Gift baskets with Heirloom Pumpkins!! Hope to see you all there!

08/15/2014

Tomatoes are coming in and we have a lot flowers right now. Please let us know if you want to come over and harvest and enjoy any of the Bounty we are blessed to have right now. Shoot us an email if you would like to set up time to come over.
Ross & Ursula
[email protected]

03/19/2014

We have begun prepping the Garden and making our planting plans for this year. If you are interested in helping this year please email us at [email protected].

Thank you,
Ross & Ursula

11/11/2013

News from Dr. Mike Liske on the trip we helped to Tenwek Heart Project
Team report to Jensen Community Garden, 2013
Michael Liske, MD
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November 10, 2013



The Tenwek Heart Project Team has just concluded its sixth trip to Tenwek Hospital in Kenya. This team, comprised of individuals from Vanderbilt University, University of Mississippi, University of Maine, University of North Carolina, Mayo University and other locales focused their efforts on the care of children with congenital (birth) defects and rheumatic heart disease (an acquired heart condition that may follow untreated “strep throat”). Seventy patients were evaluated in the cardiac clinic, and nine underwent open heart surgery. Additionally 6 interventional catheter procedures were accomplished for balloon dilation of narrow valves. There were no deaths, and all patients were off artificial respiratory support less than 12 hours after their operation.

A major continued emphasis of this trip was the ongoing training of Kenyan staff to independently perform open heart surgery. Mitral valve replacement has been accomplished on adults without guidance of visiting physicians since 2012, and this year, added training was given which now enables the on-site Kenyan team, under the guidance of Dr. Russ White, to perform this open heart procedures in children as small at 25 kg.

All the cardiac children of Kenya are beautiful and have a special story to tell. One example is Ian, who is 12 year old. He developed severe rheumatic heart disease and had been waiting for a few years for surgery, but was denied a surgical spot in the past because other children were more critically ill. He is a very sharp young man, 5th of 56 in his class, and desires to be a physician. Because of his heart condition, he was short of breath, could only walk a short distance, and had swelling of the legs. Ian finally underwent his surgical mitral valve replacement on this trip. He was very unstable going into the surgery, but ultimately tolerated a very difficult repair. Importantly, his life commitment remained unchanged, as he was heard saying within 6 hours of his surgery, "I want to be a doctor,” and “I want to heal people of their diseases.” Knowing that our work is magnified in the lives of Kenyan children is very gratifying.
We are pleased again this year to partner with Jensen Lane Community Garden, whose generous financial support covered the material, hospital, and local Kenyan personnel costs for three pediatric surgeries. We the visiting participants, the Kenyan surgical staff, and particularly the children of Kenya and Tanzania are extremely grateful for this gift.

Notes on photos:
The first photo shows Ian, mentioned in the story above. The last photo shows the cardiac kids after surgery, gathered together.

For more information and photos, check out:

https://www.facebook.com/HeartsOfEastAfrica

11/09/2013

11/09/2013

See pictures in our album of the kids you helped to have their heart surgeries!!

10/16/2013

We had our annual fundraiser for Heart's of East Africa this past weekend Raised $2400 which will fund three surgeries for children in Africa with heart defects in this upcoming month. Thanks to all those who came and supported this awesome event!!

07/20/2013

Garden is in full bloom and we have already taken over 150 lbs. of fresh produce to the Redwood Gospel Mission's Soup Kitchen. Flowers are looking great, so please let us know if you would like to come and make an arrangement for someone that you feel would be blessed by one! Also if you know of anyone that would benefit from some fresh produce don't hesitate to let us know.
Ross and Ursula

07/20/2013

Garden is in full bloom!

10/23/2012

Thank you to everyone that supported our Fundraiser! Check out the details and Photos in the Album we created about the event.

10/23/2012

Thank you to everyone who supported our annual fundraiser