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Lessons From A Box Of Raisins

Apr. 7, 2015 / By South Kern Sol
Tags: Farm Workers, Farms, Farmworkers, South Kern, South Kern Sol

"I believe that teenagers should experience working in the fields. This job definitely has a lot to teach."

When the Growing Gets Rough: An Urban Farm Struggles

May. 24, 2013 / By CSULB Enterprise Reporters
Tags: Environment, Farmers' Market, Farming, Farms, Food, Health, Healthy Food, Long Beach

By CSULB Senior Seminar Reporters Anthony Garza and Michelle Juvet. Videos by Shahrouz Khalifian

Tucked within the Carmelitos Housing Development in North Long Beach, the Growing Experience has been successful as an urban farm growing fresh and healthy produce and selling it at a low cost since 1996...

Eye-Witness to the Cruel Conditions in Tobacco Farm Labor Camps

Oct. 28, 2011 / By
Tags: AFL-CIO, Farms, Farmworkers, Labor, Tobacco, Unions

Brenda Loya in AFL-CIO Media Affairs sends us this from North Carolina, where she is on a fact-finding trip to witness the brutal conditions endured by tobacco workers...

Near Desert Paradise, Coachella Farm Workers Live in “Favelas”

Oct. 27, 2011 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Agriculture, California, Farm Workers, Farms, Rural, Slums, United States

California Watch, Video, story: Patricia Leigh Brown, video: Carrie Ching, Posted: Oct 26, 2011

THERMAL – At one end of Avenue 54, a road slicing through some of the most fertile land in the United States, resides the California of the popular imagination: a place of Bermuda shorts, putting greens and picture-window champagne dinners overlooking the infinity pool...