By Liz Robbins
The New York Times
UNION, N.J. — On a verdant farm five miles from Newark Liberty International Airport, Jacob Okam struggled to push a shiny, new garden tiller over the bumpy soil last month. His black jersey was already drenched in the noonday sun as he cut a lonesome, but winsome, figure in the field — at one with the land that is both his heritage and his hope.
Mr. Okam, 63, was growing leafy Nigerian vegetables on American soil with New York City business principles. And a sprinkling of his native wisdom.
“My mother always told me: ‘He who makes his hand touch the soil can never go hungry,’ ” Mr. Okam said in his easy, proverbial way, looking upon the one-acre plot he leases here from Kean University.
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