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For Iowa City resident David Lam and his family, a Johnson County grant program that aims to increase access to fresh food made “a small dream come true.” David Lam’s parents, Nam and Anna Lam, moved to Iowa from Vietnam; his father a refugee, and his mother an immigrant. “When they first came to the.
It’s a sunny day at Global Food Project gardens in Iowa City, Iowa, and Emmanuel Gauthier Mfuankatu is showing off the plot of land where, for the past two years,
The funding is part of $300 million from a USDA program intended to support underserved producers and landowners like Guy Ngoma, who came to Cedar Rapids from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ngoma hopes to get 28 acres of his own land one day to grow culturally relevant African food for the community.