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Urban farm provides sense of community for refugees during COVID

by Chelsea Verstegen - Borderless Magazine September 3, 2020September 9, 2020

On a sunny Saturday morning in June, Beda Pradhan picked mint, green mustard and bok choy from her plot in the Global Garden Refugee Training Farm in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood.  This story also appeared in Borderless Magazine Pradhan is one of five refugee farmers who grow produce to both eat and sell on the […]

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