Transplanting Traditions: Farming & art
Story Date: 6/8/2016

 

Source: Anita Rao and Frank Stasio, WUNC, 6/3/16


North Carolina is home to a growing Karen community, an ethnic minority from Burma that has been forced out of their country due to war. Many of these refugees call the Triangle home, and for the past six years, they have been incorporating their traditional farming techniques in growing both local and Asian produce at the Transplanting Traditions Farm, a five-acre plot of land in Chapel Hill.

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