Sushi rolling, meatpacking and community gardening
\u201cWe know that there are all sorts of good chemicals that come out of the dirt and working with land\u2013working with plants\u2013that are beneficial to our mood and our health. For refugee populations that have had to be on the run or had to live in refugee camps for decades, having a little piece of land that you can tend to that you can take care of and then see the results and not feel like you\u2019re gonna be bombed out the next day\u2013it brings a kind of peace of mind and a little bit of healing.\u201d\xa0
\n\nThis week on the show, Tammy Ho, Professor of Gender and Sexuality studies at University of California-Riverside, shares her research about refugees from Burma and their participation in the United States food system. We\u2019ll learn about a supermarket sushi mogul, Burmese meatpackers as essential workers, and how a group of refugees saved a failing church by starting a community garden.