For more than three decades at the Minneapolis Farmers Market, Mai Yang, 66, has sold everything from blueberries and tomatoes, to food prized in Hmong cuisine including bitter melon, Malabar spinach and sweet potato leaves.
Her family-run farm, based in Hastings, spans three generations, with her daughter Stacy and granddaughter joining her at the market on the weekends.
Stacy Yang jokes that she doesn’t have a green thumb, but says farming is at the center of her mother’s life…