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Transplanting Traditions Community Farm

Carrboro, NC, us • 5 - 9 Employees
Non-Profit

Transplanting Traditions Community Farm is a non-profit educational farm that seeks to address the challenges of food insecurity, healthy food access and economic well being inequity in the refugee and immigrant community. Transplanting Traditions believes that increasing the self-reliance of communities in providing for their own food needs is key to creating a more environmentally sustainable and socially responsible food system. Currently 13 refugee families farm at the 8 acre site and were farmers in their native Burma. The farm showcases a mixture of native N.C. crops and over 20 crops native to Burma. At Transplanting Traditions, gourds, turmeric, bitter melons, ginger, taro root, medicinal herbs and lemongrass mingle with heirloom tomatoes, sweet potatoes, cauliflower, arugula, beets and radishes and many more N.C. and Burma vegetables and herbs.Transplanting Traditions provides:- Access to land- Vegetable marketing outlets and training through Farmers' Markets, CSA and Restaurant sales- Year round agricultural and business education- Youth Education Programs- A cultural community space for refugees from Burma to come together, strengthen community and preserve agricultural and cultural traditions while simultaneously transitioning to new lives in N.C.Transplanting Traditions Community Farm supports the refugee community by providing educational opportunities and space to grow and market healthy, affordable and culturally appropriate foods. We strive to create innovative marketing activities that mutually benefit new American refugee farmers and low-income consumers.