October 10, 2015

Hmong farmers work to get produce in stores, schools

HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) - Like many Hmong farmers, Teng Thao's family has sold vegetables at Twin Cities farmers' markets for years. Now they also sell leeks to Lunds & Byerlys, sweet potatoes to Mississippi Market Natural Foods Co-ops in St. Paul and broccoli to public schools in Hopkins.

Thao, 32, ...

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