This week I wrote about the Global Gardens Refugee Training Farm, a one-acre city-owned lot in Albany Park tended by Burmese and Bhutanese refugees that's exploding with growth in this otherwise cool, wet summer. The farmers are growing and selling all sorts of stuff you'd expect to see in the midwest—tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, squash, beans, carrots, basil, cilantro, etc. But during their twice-weekly markets they don't always display some of the more uncommon things that they ate back home and that they're growing for their own use, or to trade or sell amongst themselves.…
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