RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Day in and day out, you can find Patience Fielding hard at work in her farm.

It’s not what Fielding always did. She says it was only during the pandemic, she decided to trying her hand in farming.

“I was thinking what can I do because of the food shortage, how can I help? And so I started giving out the produce to my community and they didn’t believe me, they were no way you are not a farmer you are lying,” Fielding joked.

Fielding said she was inspired to do so after spending many years growing up at her grandmother’s farm in West Africa.

Esther Manor Farm grows produce native to African countries such as Cameroon and Nigeria. Crops include Waterleaf, Njama Njama, and Bitter Leaf, all of which carry high nutritional value and a long history of medicinal use.

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