Farming isn’t just about planting seeds and harvesting crops-it’s a vast industry with many high-paying opportunities that people often overlook. While traditional office jobs are commonly associated ...
Cesar Chávez helped inspire the farmworker labor rights movement with a strike and boycott of grapes in Delano, California, in 1965. Since then, the United Farm Workers has continued its work.
A report from UC Santa Cruz and a local nonprofit reveals that farm workers in Monterey County struggle with low wages and high living costs, making it difficult to support their families.
When most people picture a farmer, they don’t envision someone teaching math, driving a school bus or managing a bank branch. Yet for the majority of U.S. farm households, income from these off-farm ...