This Garden Zine highlights the students' time at the SRRC garden plot as they seek "to (re)connect with a part of themselves/the land or those who seek to nourish their souls through gardening."
Chef Tu David Phu and Aileen Suzara share stories about the significance of cultural foods and ingredients in their identity development and connection to culture.
Jue Htoo recounts her experiences with seed saving and what it means to be lucky enough to live in an environment that allows for Asian crops to thrive. Scott Chang-Fleeman illustrates that the U.S. economic system and climate change are all contributing factors to the (un)sustainability of farming work
In this week’s seminar, Michael Yang and Lilian Thaoxaochay further explore the current context of AAPI community in the California food and agriculture systems, with a particular emphasis on Hmong immigrant perspectives.
As part of our Seed Saving and Cultural Memory Banking seminar in Winter 2022, Nina F. Ichikawa, who currently works with the Berkeley Food Institute, gave a presentation titled Asian Americans in food and farming: Erasure & Endurance.
In early January 2022, Kristyn Leach gave a Zoom talk to an interdisciplinary seminar that consisted of undergraduates, graduate students, and farmers. The seminar was on Asian American farmers in California and cultural memory banking, and it brought together people from different fields of study and varying levels of knowledge in farming and seed saving.
