Long growing seasons, access to the Colorado River, and abundant sunlight all contribute to Yuma’s agricultural advantage. However, the crops don’t grow and get harvested on their own.
SALINAS, Calif. — This coastal valley made famous by the novelist John Steinbeck is sometimes known affectionately as “America’s salad bowl,” though the planting and harvesting is done ...
“My mother still prefers to get her health care in Mexico,” Lepe said. “It’s easier for her.” Lepe and co-founders Wendy Johansson and Cindy Blanco Ochoa launched MiSalud Health in 2021 ...
Mercedes Falk is the president of the Wisconsin-based organization Puentes/Bridges, which leads the trips. Cole Hoscheit is a ...
to a farm-labor family of Mexican descent. When his successful father suffered a financial reversal in 1937, the family was forced to join the roughly 300,000 migrant workers who followed the ...
"We have to stay hidden," Lourdes Cardenas, a 62-year-old Mexican living in the city of Fresno ... That is why for the United Farm Workers, the largest farm workers' union in the United States, the ...
Tepole and other Mexican workers estimated that it costs $25,000 ... and for the last two years has been milking cows on a dairy farm in Minnesota. “When they go, it’s sad,” Teresa said.