Team: Bush, C., Renfrew, B., Ksor, R., Ksor, V., Siu, X.

Title: Medicinal and Food Plant Uses of Montagnard Communities in Greensboro, North Carolina

Brief: Medicinal and Food Plant Use of Montagnard Communities in Greensboro, North Carolina. Survey of Montagnard gardens with identification of plants used for food and medicine.

Community investment and desired outcomes: 

• • Only known ethnobotanical survey of Montagnard communities either in Vietnam or in the United States and includes vouchered specimens.

  • News Catherine Bush co-authors research presented at 2019 North American Refugee Health Conference, E-Net News, Elon University, (Jun 2019)

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See

• Women’s Learning Group (2011-16)

• Urban Farming Project (2014 –16)

• Dunletih Community Garden

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Related projects

• Morrison, S., Renfrew B. (Apr 2018). Sustainable Futures: Sustaining Montagnard Cultural Knowledge through Ethnobotany, Oral History and Community Health. Society for Applied Anthropology annual conference, Philadelphia. Panel discussion presentation.

• Bush, C., Renfrew, B., Ksor, V. (Jun 2019). An Analysis of the Ethnobotanical Knowledge of Indigenous Tribes of Vietnam (the Montagnards) Now Living in Greensboro, NC, USA. North American Refugee Health Conference, Toronto, Canada