Producer
Aung Let
Address: 100 Richmond Ave Kansas City, KS, 66101
Phone: 913-206-0161
About Us
Aung Let is a minority group called Chin from Myanmar who goes by the name Min Tha. She spent 20 years living in Burma and 3 years in Malaysia. In 2012, she relocated to the United States.
In 2023, she started the New Roots program. She desires to farm in order to provide for her family and to earn some money.
She has engaged in some farming in Burma. She has grown many kinds of chili, rice, corn, pumpkin, and bottle gourd. She added that their primary crop is rice.
In 2023, she started the New Roots program. She desires to farm in order to provide for her family and to earn some money.
She has engaged in some farming in Burma. She has grown many kinds of chili, rice, corn, pumpkin, and bottle gourd. She added that their primary crop is rice.
Practices
Juniper Gardens Training Farm is a 9-acre site just minutes from downtown Kansas City, KS and right across the river from Kansas City, MO. In partnership with Catholic Charities of NE Kansas, we co-manage the New Roots for Refugees program, helping refugees start and operate independent vegetable farms that supply healthy produce to feed Kansas City. In addition to New Roots, Juniper has 10 community gardeners, 7 program graduates leasing plots, and several staff plots.
The program supports refugee farmers from their first year of selling produce at farmers markets through to their graduation year where they sell through farmers markets, an aggregated CSA program, and an aggregated wholesaling operation that supplies restaurants throughout the metro area.
The program supports refugee farmers from their first year of selling produce at farmers markets through to their graduation year where they sell through farmers markets, an aggregated CSA program, and an aggregated wholesaling operation that supplies restaurants throughout the metro area.