{"id":42177,"date":"2016-06-02T17:16:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T22:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=42177"},"modified":"2016-06-02T17:16:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T22:16:12","slug":"the-farm-that-refugees-call-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/the-farm-that-refugees-call-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The farm that refugees call home"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Nikita Mandhani<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Global Gardens Refugee Training farm is a one-acre plot of land in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago that serves about 100 refugee families mostly from Bhutan, Myanmar (Burma) and Congo.<\/p>\n

For Linda Seyler, the founder, director and the farm manager, the\u00a0program is a way to help refugees segue\u00a0into the American culture\u00a0while\u00a0holding onto their national and religious identities.
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The Global Gardens Refugee Training farm uses agriculture as a means to help refugees feel closer to home (Nikita Mandhani\/Medill)<\/div>\n

The refugees actively get together to grow a variety of crops that form their staple diet, along with\u00a0a few that they got acquainted with after coming to the U.S. Every family owns a plot where they grow daikon, bitter melon, mustard, broccoli, carrots, red and black beans and Swiss chard.<\/p>\n

According to Seyler, most farmers use the produce for home cooking\u00a0and a few also sell it at the market.<\/p>\n

Photo on top: A refugee woman cleaning up her part of the global gardens farm area. (Nikita Mandhani\/Medill)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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