He’s sharing his farming heritage with immigrants in Akron
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 1, 2023
On a cold, windy Saturday afternoon in Akron, three Congolese teenagers are helping two Bhutanese men and an American man tear down a temporary greenhouse structure on a former urban farm site of Shanti Farms.
Shanti Farms is a nonprofit that helps immigrant and refugee communities in Akron embrace their agricultural roots in an urban environment. The materials from the greenhouse will be sent to other farm sites to be repurposed.
Bhakta Rizal runs Shanti Farms with his business partner, Tom Crain, the American in the group. Rizal is a Bhutanese man with lightly graying . . .
