Tag: Cambodian

  • New Roadblock for Reviving Refugee Farm

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido A year ago, Ourn Lun, a grandmotherly 60-year-old, was evicted from a piece of city-owned land where she and a group of fellow Cambodian refugees had grown crops like bitter melon, red peppers and green beans in peaceful obscurity for nearly three decades. The refugees, all of them…

  • Red Tape Turns a Green Farm into an Eyesore

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published May 30, 2011 on For close to three decades, a group of mostly poor Cambodian refugees eked out a subsistence living by farming a parcel of land at the end of a southeastern San Diego cul-de-sac. The sprawling farm was impressive. Over the years the refugees had…