What We Do: Programming and Education
The Producer Hub
The Transplanting Traditions site is home to 8 farm businesses. Farmers share things like infrastructure repair costs, produce delivery and agricultural knowledge, while staff support with overcoming barriers associated with running a business, such as language support and digital marketing. Community Supported Agriculture is a way to build a relationship with a farmer, to be closely tied to the seasons, and to make a firm commitment to eating locally.
At Transplanting Traditions, a CSA is also a way to invest in local refugee farmers who are recreating home here in the Triangle. As a nonprofit, TTCF supports farmers with land access, agricultural education, and marketing for their independently owned, for-profit farm businesses. Farmers share things like infrastructure repair costs, produce delivery and agricultural knowledge, while staff support with overcoming barriers associated with running a business, such as language support and digital marketing.
100% of produce and flowers are grown organically without pesticides. By buying into the TTCF CSA you are supporting refugee owned farm businesses and bringing the highest quality fresh produce into your home.
Farmer Education Programming
All of the refugee farmers at TTCF were farmers in their home country of Burma. They join the farm with a wealth of agricultural knowledge and skills and a deep desire to re-connect to their deeply rooted cultural heritage of farming.
Food Access
Our Share a Share program uses donations from community members like you to purchase traditional Southeast Asian vegetables and herbs from Transplanting Traditions farmers. This traditional produce is distributed to local organization to go to those in our community facing food insecurity.
Teen Programming
Our Youth Program has been built from the ground up in collaboration with the refugee community youth. In 2019, ten refugee youth advocated for TTCF and the refugee community through telling stories of their cultures with audio and visual documentaries, hosting weekly Asian vegetable cooking demonstrations at the Carrboro Farmers’ Market, and organizing a national youth food justice conference here in NC!
Children’s Program
The children’s program is made up of on-farm summer camp, tutoring, and early childhood education and was built out of the need of refugee farming families.
Support Us
Together, we are making a difference in the lives of refugee and immigrant farmers and their families as they access land, grow traditional food important to their culture and operate agricultural businesses.