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In my opinion, Kim is the most important character in __Seedfolks.__ By doing something simple for herself, she started something that helped and benefitted many people. She also brought together the people in her neighborhood by doing this. Kim starts the Gibb Street garden without even realizing it. She does all of this by simply planting some lima beans in a vacant lot. The reason why Kim plants her lima beans is because of her father. He died before he was born. On his death anniversary, Kim feels sad that she never knew him. She also feels worried that if her father was watching over her family he would not know who she was. Kim then made a very important decision. She was going to show her father in some way that she was his daughter. She would show him that she was a hard worker just like him. Back home in Vietnam, Kim’s father had worked on a farm and planted his own vegetables, so she decided she would grow some of her own vegetables. She took some dried lima beans down to a vacant, trash-filled lot across the street from her apartment that same morning. There she planted her lima beans, and she cared for them like they were her own children. This is how Kim starts the Gibb Street Garden without realizing it. Once it became known, this lot became filled with many tiny gardens. These gardens brought many different people of all races, ages, and genders together. The Gibb Street garden helped make Kim’s neighborhood a better, safer place.