Vermont Public Radio reports that "twenty-seven families of African refugees are going to be farming plots in Burlington's intervale" as part the New Farms for New Americans initiative. The program is in its first year and primarily targets unemployed women. "Officials say most of those who signed up to farm had some sort of agricultural experience in their home countries" and that "the women in the program come from Somalia, Congo, Burundi and Tanzania. The food raised in the gardens can be sold at farmers' markets."

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