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A Hmong man and woman in wide-brimmed hats harvest from a row of kale with bushland behind them

Dee Thao with box of veggies

A Hmong man and woman in wide-brimmed hats harvest from a row of kale with bushland behind them

"Whatever the weather — rain, hot, cold, you have to keep going."

two women at a market stall with a customer

a girl in in a blue jumper harvests green vegetables with a yellow bucket next to her

A Hmong baby in a pink hoodie sits on the ground in farm holding up freshly harvested carrots

Dee Thao turns to face cam

a 29 year old Hmong male with black beard and hair in a red sports tee, adjusting bok choy and other veggies on a trestle table

"So I wouldn't really see the new gens taking this up as a career path, unless they really do enjoy it themselves."
A short Hmong woman in an apron stands smiling with her taller son outside their veggie market stall

"They learned a huge amount, very quickly,"
she said.
An elderly woman with short grey hair in a stripey long-sleeve tee sits in an armchair by the window and looks at the camera

A woman in a black ponytail and apron organises produce at her farmers market stall holding a black bucket and parsley bunch

"The [young people] still have farming in their blood, but they also saw the opportunity of education would take them from poverty to riches, and so that's the way they went,"
she said.
Hmong farmer Dee Thao stands in her farm in Richmond

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