Finding America’s Farmworkers

Finding America's Farmworkers: Reaching Out in North Carolina When I moved to North Carolina from Chicago in 2005, I had no idea that so much of our nation's food was still harvested by hand. Now, twenty years later, that hasn't really changed. Much of the produce in any grocery store--the peppers and melons and berries … Continue reading Finding America’s Farmworkers →

You grow what?

It was not an answer I was expecting. It was unseasonably cold in March of 2022, just above freezing, on the evening of my visit to a farm labor camp in eastern North Carolina. We huddled at a wooden picnic table inside an old mobile home, or trailer, where the men cooked and ate their … Continue reading You grow what? →