By David Bacon This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, as part of its Ill Harvest series, and co-published here with permission. For Maria Zavala’s family, there are no easy years. But last year brought […]
By Pilar Marrero This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, as part of its Ill Harvest series, and co-published here with permission. After interviewing hundreds of farmworkers in three states for a study of the impact […]
By David Bacon This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, as part of its Ill Harvest series, and co-published here with permission. Gloria Merino came to the Salinas Valley from the Mixteca region of Oaxaca, […]
By Pilar Marrero This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, as part of its Ill Harvest series, and co-published here with permission. Luis Lopez, 50, who has worked the strawberry fields in Santa Maria for […]
By David Bacon This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, as part of its Ill Harvest series, and co-published here with permission. In the summer of 2008, Andres Cruz got a call from a crew […]
By David Bacon This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, as part of its Ill Harvest series, and co-published here with permission. Carmen Hernandez lives in a small home on Chateau Fresno Avenue, […]
The future of groundwater in Butte County is on the agenda throughout September. A group of farmers and ranchers has filed an application with the county’s Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) for the creation of […]
Sometimes when I’m selling at the farmers market, people ask if our tomatoes are dry farmed. No, they aren’t. Dry farming is a method of growing crops so that they develop deep roots that can […]
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