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Refugees in U.S. Take Up Farming

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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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Refugees plant new roots in community gardens

The IRC helps refugees get back to the land and healthy ways of growing and eating food.

New Roots

  • New Roots, the IRC’s nationwide gardening, micro-enterprise
  • Uzakboy Djuraev, 42, a refugee from Uzbekistan, works his plot at a New Roots
  • Kyi Hser, 27, a Burmese refugee, feeds calves at Threemile Canyon Farms
  • The IRC provides refugees like Puspa Lal Regmi with agricultural training
  • Bossn Gumaa, a refugee from Sudan, feels at home working at a goat farm
  • New Roots helps newly-arrived refugees
  • Bhagiratha Bhattarai, a Bhutanese refugee who arrived in Salt Lake City a year a
  • Many refugees were farmers in their native countries, says Anchi Mei
  • Until recently, the San Diego New Roots community farm was a vacant lot
  • Refugees sell produce grown by fellow refugees at a farmers' market
  • In the Pauma valley near San Diego, a group of Somali Bantu women meet
  • Shukri Egal, 17, from Somalia, is participating in an IRC after-school program
  • The New York City New Roots program is located in the South Bronx

When refugees arrive in the United States, they have left everything familiar behind. The IRC's New Roots program brings refugees together to share experiences and feel a connection to their new home through community gardening and nutrition and micro-enterprise programs.


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Refugees selling produce grown by fellow refugees at a farmers' market in San Diego

New Roots

Date: 
August 16, 2011

When refugees arrive in the United States, they have left everything familiar behind. The IRC's New Roots program brings refugees together to share experiences and feel a connection to their new home through community gardening and nutrition and micro-enterprise programs.

New Roots in America

The International Rescue Committee’s New Roots program helps recently resettled refugees to become self-sufficient and contribute to their new home in the United States through community gardening, nutrition education and small-business farming. With training, tools and land provided by the IRC, refugees are sharing their agricultural skills and producing affordable, locally grown vegetables and fruit for their families and their neighbors. Spanning 22 U.S.

Michelle Obama tours IRC-sponsored community garden in San Diego

First Lady Michelle Obama toured the IRC-sponsored New Roots Community Farm today in San Diego where she promoted her new national initiative aimed at ending childhood obesity.

The garden in the City Heights neighborhood was created by immigrants and refugees, many resettled by the IRC, last summer. The 2.3 acre farm is tended by refugees from Somalia, Cambodia, Burma, Uganda, Congo, Kenya, Mexico, Vietnam and Guatemala.

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