Common Earth Gardens program teaches refugee farmers to become entrepreneurs
Tang Mai Zatau, a refugee farmer from Myanmar, pulled weeds from a bed of garlic plants growing in his plot on the incubator farm, located at 3130 Millers Lane, April 30. Mai Zatau is one of the farmers supported by the Catholic Charities of Louisville’s Common Earth Gardens program. (Record Photo by Ruby Thomas)
Tang Mai Zatau comes from a long line of farmers who worked the land in their native Myanmar to provide food for their families.
As a farmer in Catholic Charities of Louisville’s Common Earth Gardens program, he hopes to do something his ancestors never did make a livelihood as a farmer.