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The Future of Farm Work

March 9, 2022 By

This year, as farmworkers continue to be disproportionately affected by the pandemic as well as stresses from climate change, low wages, unsafe working conditions, and crowded housing, we are looking towards the future and envisioning what farm work could look like in the coming years. We started by pairing SAF interns with farmworkers across North Carolina... [Read more]

The Human Experience: Audio Stories with Students and Farmworkers

February 15, 2022 By

 Listen to SAF Into the Fields 2017 intern Myrka Moreno's podcasts from interviews with students and farmworkers during her summer placement with SAF and Toxic Free NC. Part I : Maria Gonzalez, SAFistasMaria shares her experience growing up in a farmworking family. Part II: Valeria Lopez, H2A workersValeria asked me to come inside her house, where her... [Read more]

Stories from the Fields: In the Time of COVID

March 12, 2021 By

In the summer of 2020, SAF interns partnered with farmworkers in North Carolina and South Carolina to hear their stories of what they’re facing in the pandemic, how they’re coping and advocating for themselves and others, and how they’re carrying forward hope in their essential work.  Here are some of their stories.

José

December 30, 2020 By

José has been coming to the U.S. since he was twenty-one.  A lot of men from his small town in Mexico do the same because there’s not enough work. José has seen a lot of changes to his community: more houses and luxuries but fewer young men.  Interview in Spanish.

Voices from the Fields Video 1: Heat Stress

December 29, 2020 By

Physical Health: Heat Stress, protection from the sun

Voices from the Fields Video 4: Mental Health

December 17, 2020 By

Video 4 - Mental Health: Strategies, coping mechanisms, learning English

Voices from the Fields Video 3: Depression

December 17, 2020 By

Video 3 - Mental Health: Feelings, communication, family separation, technology

Voices from the Fields Video 2: Pesticides

December 17, 2020 By

Video 2- Physical Health: Pesticides, water consumption/ hydration, stretching and work injuries

Telling My Truth: Farmworkers Share Their Stories

December 17, 2020 By

Stories and images of what we've heard from farmworkers about their lives, their work, their hopes and dreams.

Farmworkers Are

December 17, 2020 By

A video short using images from the SAF archives that confronts myths about farmworkers.

Daily Life

December 16, 2020 By

SAF Fellow Robyn Levine documents the experiences of a group of migrant farmworkers who live together and work in the Christmas tree fields in Boone, North Carolina.

Harvest of Dignity

December 15, 2020 By

In this original documentary created in 2011 by SAF, it had been 50 years since Edward R. Murrow's landmark documentary HARVEST OF SHAME that examined the lives of farmworkers. We set out to examine how much has changed since then and how much remains the same. The film focuses on the lives and work of... [Read more]

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