57 pounds of cabbage, please

I love my Massachusetts.

Here is a fantastic and innovative program taking place in northern Massachusetts. It's called the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project. Twelve years old now, it trains refugees of war, famine and genocide in modern farming practices and helps them integrate into American life. These new farmers are putting back into use what has been idle for years. Farmland.

John Ogonowski was the first mentor farmer. He let Cambodian and Hmong refugees use his land to establish their newly learned irrigation techniques and would not accept money for use of his land, only fresh vegetables.

John Ogonowski was also the pilot on American Airlines flight 11 to Los Angeles on September 11th, 2001. His wife helped create a farm trust as a memorial to her husband.

Over 150 people have been trained through this program. They supply the region's farmer's markets and ethnic stores with beets, cabbage, eggplant, Asian spices and other produce.

Geeze, I mean geeze, why isn't this kind of stuff on the news? It's good, good, good.

Both of these websites have great info.

www.nesfp.nutrition.tufts.edu
www.nesfp.nutrition.tufts.edu/about/index.html