Now to the story of a family farm in Hillsborough, Oregon that is unlike most here in the U.S.

As part of our journalism training program, student reporting labs, Sandeep Pillai spoke with the

farm's owners about the connection between their South Asian heritage and the crops they grow.

Me and my family own or operate edible stories market garden.

It's a small market garden in Hillsborough, Oregon.

We decided to try growing some vegetables that are used in South Asian cooking.

It just made it more meaningful for us to grow these foods that have some cultural heritage behind.

Both my husband and me were thinking of what all we should be growing.

And of course we have local farms that have at that time 10 years ago were growing what you get in the regular grocery store.

But then we said,

why don't we try growing something that other people are not growing? And over time,

people started appreciating it. It was something that connected them to their heritage.

When my mom goes out, she'll pick vegetables, different types of Indian vegetables, and she will come back home and she'll cook that and she'll like pick vegetables different types of Indian vegetables and she will come

back home and she'll cook that and she'll be talking at how when she was in India

how her mother or her grandmother would cook that and she would be cooking in the same way

on our farm we go many different types of vegetables but but a few ones are like doody, which

is a gourd.

Many times you just cut it up, like boil it, use it for sambars, which is a type of soup,

again with many spices.

My least favorite is Karela.

It's a bitter gourd.

It's extremely bitter.

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