Livingston

Two Portuguese families in Livingston grew to become some of the largest sweet potato growers in the nation. We meet up with the next generation of farmers building on what their families started.

By some estimates, Punjabis now make up close to a fifth of the city’s population.

A Japanese farming community called Yamato Colony took roots in Livingston in 1907; by 1940, about 70 Japanese families were farming more than 3700 acres in Livingston. Two years later, its residents were sent away by the U.S. government to concentration camps. We meet 97-year-old Sherman Kishi, who returned after the war to grow grapes and then almonds on his farm. We also hear about the legacy of a Sikh family who left India fifty years ago and ended up creating a cultural oasis in Livingston. Plus, sweet potato farmers look back at when their families immigrated from the Azores.

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