Asian-Americans’ contributions to locally grown, sustainable produce have long been ignored, but these young farmers are trying to change that
the local farm-to-table movement. As history might have taught us, ensuring their survival is crucial to the health of our food system.
Nguyen studied atmospheric physics at UC Berkeley before going on to work with a nonprofit refugee organization to launch a farmers market in San Diego. She noticed that Vietnamese people would line up for an hour before the market opened, and when boxes of Southeast Asian produce arrived, they would sell out in hours. Yet while focused on affordability and access, Nguyen became concerned about the ways in which the produce was grown.
Leach now works full-time for Namu, the restaurant’s farm. Thanks to the support of the Lee brothers, she has been able to take an experimental approach, making calculated risks to breed the best seeds for crops traditionally grown in Asia — such as Korean melon — for the long term. She hopes to pass on that knowledge, to get other Korean Americans excited about farming the food of their culture.
That divide is something that Fred Lee has been bridging since taking over his family farm in the 1990s. After serving in WWII, Lee’s father joined his brother and cousin to start the farm in Long Island in the mid-1940s. Due to laws severely restricting the career opportunities for Chinese Americans, he had grown up in his family’s laundry business. As an adult, he vowed that he would never again clean other peoples’ clothes for a living.in Peconic, New York.
“My father had passed away a number of years prior from cancer, and while I can’t prove a direct relationship, I did not like handling those chemical materials regardless,” he says. The farm received organic certification in 2007.
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