Everything That Touches Us

For immigrants in a new culture, finding access to basic comforts, such as foods from home, is not always easy. I was told about the difficulty of finding goat meat, for example—a mainstay in many African, Asian, and Caribbean diets—in a region where only the milk and cheese from the animal are more generally distributed. The same is true for vegetables such as daikon, African eggplant and corn, amaranth greens, and bitter melon, as well as various herbs and flowers. A few years ago, I heard about New Farms for New Americans (NFNA), an organization located on the Ethan Allen Homestead in Burlington, Vermont, not far from where I grew up. NFNA has conducted research and worked closely with S...View all