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Tina Richards: Renting Land to Hmong Farmers (Full)

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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3. Tina Richards: Renting Land to Hmong Farmers (Full) 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)