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Finding Liberation Through Farming | Ambrook Research

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Throughout Maine’s growing season, over two hundred Somali Bantu families travel the state’s winding back roads to the tiny town of Wales. They bus and carpool back and forth from the urban center of Lewiston, 20 minutes away. Their destination is a 103-acre farm of rolling hills, covered in waving stalks of flint corn. As this year’s season comes to its close, Muhidin Libah sits in the farmhouse surrounded by seedling catalogs, planning the farm’s crops for the next growing season. More Maine stories The Price of Picking Blueberries Is the Biochar Boom Upon Us? They Were As Gods Many of the crops grown at their Maine farm are familiar to the immigrants from their farms in Somalia, although their cultivation is modified to accommodate Maine’s shorter growing season. “In Somalia we grew yams,” Libah explained, gesturing to where a list of the farm’s crops and profits from the previous season cover one kitchen wall. “We grew all kinds of tomatoes, hot peppers, bell peppers. Swiss chard w

Thousands of miles from home, Somali refugees in rural Maine have begun to thrive thanks to a cooperative community farm. Throughout Maine’s growing season, over two hundred Somali Bantu families travel the state’s winding back roads to the tiny town of Wales. They bus and carpool back and forth from the urban center of Lewiston, 20 minutes away. Their destination is a 103-acre farm of rolling hills, covered in waving stalks of flint corn . As this year’s season comes to its close, Muhidin Libah sits in the farmhouse surrounded by seedling catalogs, planning the farm’s crops for the next growi

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