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Liberation Farms supports Somali Bantu refugee farmers to develop viable farm businesses. Its mission: food justice, community building, and education in the form of “inter-cultural and inter ...
Every Friday at the Francestown Community Market, sisters Nasteho and Shamsa Mohamed will be selling produce grown by their ...
There are now over 600 Somali Bantu refugees living in Buffalo. Many of these refugees helped to launch the Somali Bantu Community Farm (SBCF) in 2017.
The recent elimination of the USDA’s Local Food Purchasing Assistance program is forcing immigrant farmers in Maine and the ...
For the Somali Bantu cooperative, the recipes stem from their past lives in Somalia, where sambusas made with food from their own farms would have been a commonplace item.
Their journey was arduous, but their dream survived. Today, that dream has come true in Maine where Thanksgiving tables will be plentiful with local sweet potatoes, apples, squash, and other holiday ...
It was the joy of finally getting to celebrate Deb Shid, a Somali Bantu start-of-year tradition, in the United States. Saturday marked the first time the event has ever been celebrated in this ...
A Somali refugee-led urban farm in Pittsburgh expanded in the last few years to include a goat farm about an hour north of the city in Mercer County.
Bountiful: Somali Bantu farm in Wales reaping a harvest 80% of the commercial operation crop helps feed hungry Mainers.
Somali refugees come here unfamiliar with American gang and gun culture, coupled with cultural and language barriers, said Fatuma Bulle, founder of the Somali Bantu Diverse Center, an organization ...
Bantu refugees began arriving in the city from camps along the Somali border in the early 2000s. Members of the community started the Mwanakuche Farm.