Living Where Fast Food Is Easy But Fresh Food Is Scarce

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The Know Youth Media / New America Media, First Person, Jane Carretero, Posted: Oct 11, 2013

Editor’s Note: Getting fresh produce is a challenge in many of California’s farmworker communities, and so is changing young people’s eating habits. Jane Carretero, the daughter of farmworkers in Fresno, shared a bit of her own recent experience in a radio and text diary she produced as a member of The Know Youth Media, a project of New America Media, in collaboration with KQED and The California Report’s Hunger in the Valley of Plenty series. 

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