Jade Sato, Asian American Farm Owner. Brighton, Colorado.

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America Works

Library of Congress

25 episodes

5 months ago

Features the voices of contemporary workers from throughout the United States talking about their lives, their workplaces, and their on-the-job experiences. Drawn from hundreds of longer oral history interviews collected by fieldworkers for the American Folklife Center's Occupational Folklife Project (OFP), America Works is a testament to the wisdom, wit, knowledge, and dedication of today's working Americans. These engaging oral histories, which have are preserved in the American Folklife Center's archive, are enriching and expanding America's historical record.

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Jade Sato, Asian American Farm Owner. Brighton, Colorado.

America Works

6 minutes 38 seconds

1 year ago

Jade Sato, Asian American Farm Owner. Brighton, Colorado.

Jade Sato, the founder and owner of Minoru Farm in Brighton, Colorado, talks with documentarian Katelyn Reuther about being part of a growing movement of Asian American farmers, many of them women, who are experimenting with raising and marketing Asian heritage crops, like sisho, ginger and gobo root, for a rapidly diversifying American palate. Their talk is part of Reuther’s Occupation Folklife Project “Finding Roots: Asian American Farmers in Contemporary America.”