CA family brings Filipino, Hmong, and Indigenous skills to farm [Video]

Remagination Farm is led by Dr. Robyn Rodriguez, her husband Joshua Vang, and their nine-year-old son Ezio. The family blends Filipino and Hmong traditions, growing everything from Hmong corn to bitter melon and offering a space for community connection and healing. 

“I really wanted to be able to just pass on stories of my parents and my grandparents to my son through the food. It is definitely the way that we connect to family (and) to other communities,” Rodriguez said.

The journey to create this farm began after the heartbreaking loss of Rodriguez’s eldest son, Amado. During the pandemic, he was in the Philippines, learning from Indigenous communities and helping rebuild after the typhoons. There, he contracted food poisoning, and due to lockdown, he was unable to receive the medical care he needed.

In the …