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California agriculture

Posted inFood, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Some Inland California History Begins with an Orange

by Aaron Gilbreath March 6, 2020October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Rural California Feeds the Nation, But Too Many Rural Residents Can’t Feed and House Themselves

by Aaron Gilbreath December 3, 2019October 19, 2022

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.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

The Women Who Help Immigrant Women Escape Domestic Abuse

by Aaron Gilbreath October 16, 2018October 19, 2022

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.

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