Even as California’s Inland Empire loses its citrus industry to urbanization, urbanites can still keep social ties by planting fruit trees in their yards.
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Rural California Feeds the Nation, But Too Many Rural Residents Can’t Feed and House Themselves
In a fertile valley that boats an $8 billion agricultural economy, the people who work the fields and in processing plants rarely enjoy the economic security that the fields’ corporate owners do.
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The Women Who Help Immigrant Women Escape Domestic Abuse
A network of women like Mily Treviño-Sauceda and Valentina are helping Latina farm-worker women escape domestic violence and abuses at work, learn their rights, and connect with social services.