Field Guides to Food

Tina Richards, all videos

Tina Richards, artist, art teacher, community activist in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, rents land to Hmong gardeners. In this interview, she talks about the various aspects of her outreach to her new neighbors, and about what she has learned from observing their gardening and cooking practices. (August 13, 2012)


Table of Contents:

(0:00) BACKGROUND
Her as child as a farmer (:0.23)

(0:48)   ORGANIC FARMERS
Her Family Became More Involved With Land -  (0:49)

(0:90) HMONGS IN THE COMMUNITY 
Hmong people Wanted To Garden and Thus Paid Them to Work On It (1:00)
Used Things For Healing That We do not Commonly Us- Learned From Them (3:03)
Hmong Diet (4.23)

(5:30) GARDENING CYCLE 
 Melons – Hmong Can Grow Good Quality Melons (6:40)
Nutrient (7:55)

(8:05) RENTING THE LAND 
Techniques for Gardening (9:40)
Amount of Gardens- Small Village (10:10)
Helping people (11:03)
Number of People in a Given Area (12:00)

(14:05) SUBSISTENCE AND MARKETS  
 Hours of Work and Ways to Work - 16:05
Getting to Know People 19:02
Governing Space  22:20
Change of Diet - 23:10

(23:11) CULTURE 
Influence of Larger Hmong Population – (24:50)
Shopping (28:40)
People Cook a Meal Verses Eating Junk Food – (30:50)
Hmong Students- Bridge Between Hmong and Not  (33:20)
Spiritual World  - (39:30)

(41:40) PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH DIFFERENT CULTURES
 As a farmer, teacher and artist (41:42) 
Students as Artists – (46:40)

(49:45) FUTURE FARMING 
Will Next Generation Will Want to Farm and Family Pressures Verses College – (49:48)
Preserved Verses Loss of Culture – (51:50)

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