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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Shani Mink
Oct 3, 20233 min
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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Cindy Hahamovitch
Oct 3, 202311 min
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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ELIZABETH HENDERSON
Oct 3, 202312 min
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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Lily Masee
Oct 3, 20235 min
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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Karina Lutz
Oct 3, 20234 min
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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Míchi López
Oct 3, 20235 min
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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Al Johnson
Oct 3, 20236 min
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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Xochitl Antziri
Oct 3, 20235 min
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
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
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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Jahdea Clare
Oct 3, 20233 min
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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Oct 3, 20239 min
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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Roger Plant
Oct 3, 20233 min
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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George Naylor
Oct 3, 20235 min
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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Sarah Greenberg
Oct 3, 20235 min
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
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
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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Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin
Sep 26, 202314 min
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
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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