Summer 2023 - Farmworkers

AS FARMERS, WE ARE PRESSED ON BOTH ENDS . . .

Anita Ashok Adalja

Oct 3, 20233 min read

AS FARMERS, WE ARE PRESSED ON BOTH ENDS . . .

by Anita Ashok Adalja to make a living for ourselves and our hired crew and to provide food to a country that is paying much less than...

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Religious and Cultural Diversity on the Farm

Shani Mink

Oct 3, 20233 min read

Religious and Cultural Diversity on the Farm

By Shani Mink The Jewish High Holidays are a very special time for my family. It’s a yearly reset – we pray, eat, don’t eat, gossip, ask...

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Operation Blooming Onion and the Long Sordid History of the H2A Program

Cindy Hahamovitch

Oct 3, 202311 min read

Operation Blooming Onion and the Long Sordid History of the H2A Program

By Cindy Hahamovitch In 2021, a multi-agency sting called Operation Blooming Onion netted two dozen alleged “human traffickers” who were...

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Immigration Reform, H2A, and Justice for Farmworkers

ELIZABETH HENDERSON

Oct 3, 202312 min read

Immigration Reform, H2A, and Justice for Farmworkers

By Elizabeth Henderson During the month of February, the Farmworker Association of Florida members, low-income Latinx workers, many of...

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Culturing a Rural Livelihood: A Young Dairy Farmer’s Determination

Lily Masee

Oct 3, 20235 min read

Culturing a Rural Livelihood: A Young Dairy Farmer’s Determination

By Lily Massee Lisa Marchetti’s life as a farmer has been nothing short of nomadic. Over the past decade, she has worked on ten different...

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Forty Stolen Acres and a Volunteer Mule: Free Labor, Free Food, and the Illusion of Freedom

Karina Lutz

Oct 3, 20234 min read

Forty Stolen Acres and a Volunteer Mule: Free Labor, Free Food, and the Illusion of Freedom

By Karina Lutz Volunteers working on small organic farms are so common they deeply impact farm economics. Many farmers I know, all I've...

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Farmworker Mental Health: how our food system is affecting the mental health of the people who feed

Míchi López

Oct 3, 20235 min read

Farmworker Mental Health: how our food system is affecting the mental health of the people who feed

By Míchi López Take a second to close your eyes and picture the answer to the following question: where does our food come from? It may...

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Farm Worker to Farmer – Different Journeys

Al Johnson

Oct 3, 20236 min read

Farm Worker to Farmer – Different Journeys

By Al Johnson We might agree on the definition of a “farmworker,” but defining a “Farmer” is more complicated. Does a farmer own and work...

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Alianza Agricola – an Interview with Luis Jimenez

Xochitl Antziri

Oct 3, 20235 min read

Alianza Agricola – an Interview with Luis Jimenez

By Xochitl Antziri and Elizabeth Henderson Against all odds, undocumented farmworkers on conventional dairy farms in Western NY have...

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ELIZABETH HENDERSON

Oct 3, 202310 min read

Farm Work –the Agony and the Ecstacy

By Elizabeth Henderson Like many TNF readers, I chose to become an organic farmer because I enjoy farmwork. When people asked me and my...

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Mary Jo Dudley

Oct 3, 202311 min read

Immigration Reform: Farmworker Voices

By Mary Jo Dudley Immigration reform is a priority among farmworkers in New York State, yet current legislative proposals offer a complex...

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The Reality of the H2A Farmworker Program: the Jamaican experience

Jahdea Clare

Oct 3, 20233 min read

The Reality of the H2A Farmworker Program: the Jamaican experience

By Jahdea Clare The H2A farm worker program has been running for decades to fill American farms' labor gaps and shortages. Growing up in...

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Alex Baten

Oct 3, 20239 min read

A Farmworker Story

By Alex Baten Spanish submission is translated below. My name is Alexander Baten. I am from Guatemala, originally from Totonicapán (a...

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Opinion: What Materials Qualify for Use in Organic Production? OMRI

Roger Plant

Oct 3, 20233 min read

Opinion: What Materials Qualify for Use in Organic Production? OMRI

What Materials Qualify for Use in Organic Production? The Role of OMRI Editorial note: Soon after the National Organic Program launched...

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Opinion: Solutions to Replace the Destructive International Neoliberal Agricultural System

George Naylor

Oct 3, 20235 min read

Opinion: Solutions to Replace the Destructive International Neoliberal Agricultural System

By George Naylor Life becomes more precarious day by day because of multinational monopolies’ priorities for cheap labor and raw...

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Opinion: Let's Talk: Land Access for Beginning Farmers

Sarah Greenberg

Oct 3, 20235 min read

Opinion: Let's Talk: Land Access for Beginning Farmers

By Sarah Greenberg In a speech delivered in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. discussed the distortion our government imposes when asking...

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Ernest (Buster) Caswell

Sep 26, 20232 min read

Opinion: Farmworker Housing

By Ernest (Buster) Caswell As I continue to advocate for housing for agricultural workers across the State of Vermont, multiple parties...

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Casey Merkle

Sep 26, 202311 min read

Hatching the Great Chicken Rescue

By Casey Merkle When I was 9 years old, I wanted to save all the chickens. I wanted to rescue all the eggs from going sunny-side up on...

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Changing the World—One Chicken at a Time

Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin

Sep 26, 202314 min read

Changing the World—One Chicken at a Time

by Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin The chicks have arrived! A 6 a.m. phone call from the Northfield, Minnesota, post office alerted Eric...

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Holli Cederholm

Sep 26, 20238 min read

TNF NOFA FARMER PROFILE: Elizabeth Henderson of Peacework CSA

Interviewed by Holli Cederholm, TNF Advisory Committee Member People feel connected to NOFA because of our shared love of the land and...

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