Behind the bouquet: Hmong Flower Farmers of Pike Place Market
Автор: Megan Murnane
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Farmers of Hmong descent make up the largest percentage of flower vendors of Pike Place Market in Seattle.
Hmong refugees started coming to the United States in the 1980s from Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. In 1982 the Indochinese Farm Project was started to help support these refugees. Funded by King County and the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (PDA), the project provided land to grow crops and stalls at the market to sell them.
"It taught Hmong farmers how to grow in a different climate while also preserving their culture, their traditions, their heritage," said Madison Bristol, marketing and public relations manager at Pike Place Market PDA.
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