You grow what?
A few years ago, researching a book about farmworkers in rural North Carolina, I visited a labor camp and got an unexpected answer when I asked what crop the men were growing. What follows is an audio essay about the surprisingly thin line between hemp and marijuana, the H2A guest worker program that brings hundreds…
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- You grow what?
- Blacksmiths, Ice Men, and Copy Editors
- The Resilient Jimmy Kalish
- My Family History
- Finding America’s Farmworkers
- To Feed Those Who Feed Us
- The Death of a Farmworker
- The New Bracero
- The crux of the farmworker debate
- To build a house. Or not.
- Something in my head
- The Eponymous Mr. Ponzi
- Death by Derivatives
- The Reconstruction of Ulysses S. Grant
- Foreign Exchange(s)
- Playing with fire
- The Secret Lives of America’s Migrant Farmers
- Considering the farmworker: What I’ve learned
- The Nice Camp
- The lives of child farmworkers in their own pictures and words
- Father Tony
- A Chavez for here and now
- These vecinos are more than just neighbors
- Cultivating farmworker advocates, one student at a time
- Land of the free? Not for U.S. farmworkers according to visiting British MPs
- Handcuffed in defense of farmworker rights
- 500 miles from Immokalee
- It ain’t just tobacco
- Considering the farmworker
- All About Derivatives
- Fixing Wall Street’s Autopilot
- A Call of the Wild Ends Too Soon
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