Cultivating Coffee’s Next Generation
Generaciones is a project that focuses on helping the children of coffee producers in Central America’s Trifinio region (parts of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) find work in the coffee industry.
What’s Eating America’s Farmers?
The last time the Farm Aid hotline rang like this, Ronald Reagan was president and Willie Nelson was playing a huge concert to raise money for hundreds of thousands of farmers across the country who were facing financial ruin. By the autumn of 1985, America’s “farm crisis” was suddenly a thing.
The Cesar Chavez of West Texas
Carlos Marentes works to protect the rights of El Paso area chili workers—and literally provides a roof over their heads. Modern Farmer spoke to him about the border wall, the forgotten NAFTA-immigration connection and other insights from life near the border.
The Disturbing Story of an ICE Raid on a Farm in Upstate New York
Rough, opaque, and inhumane.
The H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker Visa Process Explained
And why the infamous “guest” worker program is such fertile ground for fraud and abuse.
There’s a crisis brewing in our fields, and it’s about to get much, much worse.
Voices of the Food Chain and StoryCorps Share the Stories of the Workers Who Help Feed Us
A new oral history project, Voices of the Food Chain, gives food workers a chance to tell their stories.
Farm Confessional: I’m an Undocumented Farm Worker
In our new feature, Farm Confessional, we talk to agricultural workers whose stories often aren’t told. This week: a 40-year-old migrant farm worker based in Madera, California.
