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City Heights garden transports caretakers

Submitted by Anonymous on May 11, 2012 - 9:59pm
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City Heights garden transports caretakers
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May 11, 2012
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San Diego Union Tribune
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It is quiet in the heart of New Roots Community Garden — surrounded by rows of vivid greens, red stalks and towering sugar cane — save for a few clucking sounds from the chicken coop nearby.
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New garden sprouts in Holladay thanks to donations, volunteers

Submitted by Anonymous on April 18, 2012 - 9:28am
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New garden sprouts in Holladay thanks to donations, volunteers
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April 18, 2012
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The Salt Lake Tribune
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Community effort » Students and refugee families will plant, grow and harvest produce.

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Photo Share: Community farm, San Diego


March 20, 2012
By The IRC
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Sarah Wayne Callies: Cycles


March 16, 2012
By Sarah Wayne Callies
Since people seek refuge in Ban Mai Nai Soi camp because they are fleeing violence, any nascent sense of hope and safety is easily undermined when they feel threatened or are violated.
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2011: In the United States, new roots of tradition and citizenship


December 31, 2011
By George Rupp

Puspa Lal Regmi, a Bhutanese refugee resettled in Boise, Idaho, works in a community garden.

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Photo Share: New friends, new roots


December 13, 2011
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Photo of the Day: Urban gardening, New York


October 13, 2011
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Refugees in U.S. take up farming - IRC in the New York Times


October 11, 2011
By Kathleen Sands Adams

Khadija Musame, above right, with a customer from Somalia at the New Roots Farm stand in San Diego.

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Photo of the Day: Scarecrow, Salt Lake City


October 10, 2011
By Kathleen Sands Adams
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Refugees in U.S. Take Up Farming

Submitted by Anonymous on October 9, 2011 - 9:29pm
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Refugees in U.S. Take Up Farming
Date: 
October 9, 2011
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The New York Times
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SAN DIEGO — At the Saturday farmer’s market in City Heights, a major portal for refugees, Khadija Musame, a Somali, arranges her freshly picked pumpkin leaves and lablab beans amid a United Nations of produce, including water spinach grown by a Cambodian refugee and amaranth, a grain harvested by...

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