Lan Thai Enclave Expands "Food as Medicine," Takes Over San Diego Farm

San Diego Magazine's Happy Half Hour · Feb 24, 2022 · 59m

As a young girl growing up on a farm in San Diego County, Lan Thai's dad would hand her shrimp shells from that night's dinner and tell her, "Go feed the trees." Lan was too young to understand why, but she did. The trees grew gaudy with fruit. Years later, as she was becoming a chef and diving deeper into the nutritive and health properties of food, she learned you can't grow healthy food without healthy soil. And shrimp shells are star soil-makers. Born in a Thai refugee camp as Lan's family fled the communist takeover of Vietnam, they found their way here. Started growing their own…