By Charles D. Thompson, Jr. Imagine you are Enrique. You’ve left your home and family to follow your father to work in Louisburg, North Carolina. You will live for half a year in a trailer on a farm on a back road. You have no transportation of your own. Your life centers on work in... [Read more]
Narrative
The Things They Carried
By Kyle Warren, SAF Into the Fields intern Luis in Arkansas, Sweet Potato We don’t have anywhere else to go. You just have to make the best of a rough situation. It truly is the closest thing we can call home.” Luis was living in the storage facility where his company would store the old... [Read more]
More Than One Story
Twenty-five years of narratives from farmworkers mostly in the Carolinas, told in labor camp kitchens, on trailer porch stoops, and in small living rooms with fans whirring and children playing nearby. It is stories of cultural celebrations, of helping a sick co-worker, standing up to the crew leader, of wage theft and illness from pesticide... [Read more]