Projects In The Midwest
Big River Farms (BRF), run by the Minnesota Food Association, focuses on assisting new immigrant farmers build their farming business through training, production and distribution.
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Working with refugee and immigrant community gardeners turned urban farmers in Lincoln, NE, to help them grow produce for market
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The CSA Learning Center empowers people to create sustainable communities of soils, plants, animals, and people through educational, creative, and experiential programs offered in partnership with Angelic Organics, a vibrant biodynamic community supported farm.
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Cultivate Kansas City (formerly the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture) was founded in the fall of 2004 to promote urban farming in the Kansas City Metro area. Cultivate Kansas City provides urban farmers and would-be farmers from different backgrounds and nationalities with individualized support in all phases of farm development.
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After three years of contracting with local Minnesota farmers to grow food for legal immigrants removed from the Food Stamp Program, the Minnesota Food Association (MFA) launched the New Immigrant Agriculture Project in 1998 as a means for new immigrants to grow food both for their own families, and to sell at market.
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Growing Power has worked with Hmong farmers in the Milwaukee area for more than 15 years, and recently established the Southeast Wisconsin Immigrant Farming Initiative in an effort to formalize this work and outreach to additional immigrant and refugee groups, including recently arrived Somali Bantu refugees and aspiring Latino farmers.
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