Posts by Laura McCandlish

Laura McCandlish is a food writer and radio producer who recently relocated from Corvallis, Ore. to Brunswick, Me. She writes for The Portland Phoenix and blogs at BaltimOregon.com.

Reconnecting Refugee Farmers to Their Agricultural Roots

By Laura McCandlish / March 27, 2013

With support, Somalian Refugees find their way back to farming and community on peaceful ground. It’s a crisp Saturday in mid-February at the largest indoor farmers’ market in the whitest state in America, housed in a grand old textile mill on the banks of the Androscoggin River in Brunswick, Maine. A rainbow of root vegetables…

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