Aleppo, Syria has become the country's most dangerous city amidst the tumultuous civil war that has left millions homeless and hundreds of thousands dead.

Though many of the refugees fleeing Syria are from Aleppo and Damascus, another city under constant siege, there are many that still live within the cities for a variety of reasons. Some are too poor to afford to flee, while others refuse to leave their homes and families behind.

One of these people is Abdullah al-Qatmawi, a citizen of Aleppo that runs a small garden on a blasted out patch of ground that was at one point attacked by a bomb dropped by a helicopter, leaving three people dead and his home irreparably damaged.

Ever since the Assad regime cut the main road that connected people to Aleppo's eastern districts, the people living in the west have been experiencing a severe food shortage. Fortunately, al-Qatmawi began planning two years ago for these hardships and had started his vegetable garden.

After the bomb attacked the patch of ground, he started planting tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, mint and molokhiya, which is similar to okra and native to the Middle East. He says his 250-square-feet of produce is his way of saying he won't be brought down by the terror.

"My garden is a message to the Assad regime and those who support it," he told Anadolu Agency. "We will stay in our city even if they bomb it to smithereens; we will resist no matter how long their siege lasts."

Al-Qatmawi uses the produce to feed his family and then sells the excess to neighbors for an extremely discounted price. As the war rages on, blockades will continue to prevent citizens from getting crucial resources, and al-Qatmawi isn't the only one using plants to keep the city positive, but he is one of the few ones that is still alive.