A refugee farmer waters his crops at an IRC New Roots community garden in the Bronx, New York.

Iranian election protest, June 2009

Noueth (right), a refugee from Cambodia, talks with Jake Gillick of Earnest Eats at the New Roots farm in San Diego where she grows mint used in Earnest Eats bars.

Abdi Hassen (right) arrived in Baltimore in May 2012 after fleeing political oppression in Ethiopia. He shows the IRC’s Sharon Waxman produce grown by refugee farmers at a local New Roots garden.

Fresh produce grown by refugees in a New Roots community garden.