A FOUR-part series on building a Border food economy will begin with a talk by Charlie Showers at Albury LibraryMusuem on Wednesday.
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The Open Ideas series is an initiative from the Bhutanese Association in Albury, Albury-Wodonga Cultural Exchange and Parklands Albury-Wodonga.
The centerpiece of this partnership is a new community market farm located off Lemke Road near Gateway Island.
Parklands community ranger Ant Packer hoped the farm would employ refugees who couldn’t speak English well.
“We want it to be a place where people can come out and enjoy nature,” she said. “This is just the beginning, we’ve started small.”
Rohit Khulal, who moved to the Border in 2013, supervises the farm.
“This time of year we’re growing snow peas, chillis – which are very hot – also rayo sagg,” he said.
Mr Khulal fled political persecution from Bhutan in the early 1990s with his family and grew up in Nepal.
The talk by Mr Showers, who co-founded the Beechworth food co-op, will be held from 6pm.
It will focus on how a local food economy could help the settlement experience for migrants and refugees in the Border.
Email awce@vrb.org.au or call 0429 117 949.
This is just the beginning, we've started small
- Parklands Albury-Wodonga community ranger Ant Packer