Bhutanese & Burmese Farmers Growing Together in Nashville, with Tally May

The Collaborative Farming Podcast

What does it look like to give Burmese and Bhutanese elders and families, and by extension immigrant and refugee peoples, meaningful growing opportunities?

Today, I chat with Tallahassee May, the farm director of Growing Together Nashville. First, let’s just agree that Tallahassee May is one of the best names we’ve ever heard. Second, Growing Together Nashville is a part of the Nashville Food Project. It leases a couple of acres of church land in inner city Nashville to Bhutan and Burmese farmers, most of them elders, so they may grow produce both for their famalies and community, make a supplemental income, and have meaningful work.

After the conversation, stick around because Tally asked some of the same questions to the farmers through a translator. Not only is it important to hear the voices of the farmers themselves, you can hear the birds, the trains, the inside jokes lost in translation, the airplanes, the laughter, it’s just a great listen. Let it play.

I just cannot get over the amount of gratitude these people have simply for the opportunity to grow.

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