Hello friends,
There was a great article in the Boston Globe yesterday discussing how immigrant farmers have been able to take their training from the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project to grow crops from their native countries and find a market niche:
Growing a new generation of farmers
Aug 21, 2008
"DRACUT - Sinikiwe "Nikki" Makarutsa worked on her parents' small-scale farm in Zimbabwe, and prefers to feed her children food grown organically. She also prefers the food she grew up with, particularly favoring maize to American sweet corn."