This south St. Louis farm helps foreign-born people connect to their homelands
The farmers are Congolese, Tanzanian, Moroccan, Nepali, Burmese and Afghan. They grow greens, potatoes, beans, radishes, walking onions, corn, lettuce, garlic and cilantro.
By Andrea Y. Henderson
St. Louis Public Radio
May 29, 2024
Excerpt:
Farming comes quite naturally for Zhour Naim. Her father taught her how to farm as a child while living in Morocco. Although working land in North Africa was not ideal for a child, Naim did anything to help feed her family.
“In many countries, people depend on their agriculture to put food on the table and to sell the rest of the surplus to have extra money,” Naim said. “My father passed away, but we had to help him on the farm … at the time we were not very happy working hard on the farm.”
She especially hated collecting olives during the winter because the land was frozen. However, today, she draws from those same farming techniques that she learned as a child and applies them to the international urban farmland she helps manage for SEED St. Louis.
“I personally feel there is some positive energy I feel [when I garden] early in the morning,” Naim said while picking fresh vegetables. “This is my choice, just to make my hands dirty.”
Naim is one of 39 immigrant and refugee farmers who rent out rows of land on the 42,000-square-foot public-facing farm in the Botanical Heights neighborhood in south St. Louis. It is nestled between homes and the Willert Home Products manufacturing company off Folsom Avenue.
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