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A literary organization tackles California gang violence

The National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, Calif., is honoring the Nobel Prize-winning author by helping at-risk youth in the community he wrote about.

by Taylor Wiles, May 02, 2012
Aspiring farmers find creative ways to succeed

Sarahlee Lawrence and Amy Ridout are part of a wave of young farmers determined to remake the American food system.

by Sarah Gilman, Nov 28, 2011
Farm incubators help would-be farmers succeed on their own

Viva Farms is a "farm incubator" in Washington's Skagit Valley that helps aspiring cash-poor farmers like Nelida Martinez start and successfully operate their own businesses.

by Jennifer Langston, Nov 28, 2011
Bordering on injustice

Jimmy Santiago Baca's novel A Glass of Water compassionately describes the lives of Mexican immigrants.

by Don Waters, Sep 14, 2009
The persistence of a golden time in the West

Seventy years after the publication of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, migrant workers still roam the West, eking out a tough living in its orchards and farm fields.

by David Frey , Apr 24, 2009
The fruits of their labor

In Delta County, Colorado, a pilot program sent prisoners to work on three farms during the summer of 2008.

by Marty Durlin, Andrea Appleton, Jay Canode and Emily Steinmetz, Oct 10, 2008
Plowing under the fields of shame

Rebecca Clarren talks to migrant farmworker women about a threat they face every day in the fields: sexual harassment and assault by coworkers and bosses.

by Rebecca Clarren, Apr 14, 2008
Fear in the Valley

Following a high-profile raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, undocumented farmworkers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley live in fear

by Eric Mack, Jul 23, 2007
The red, white and blue of ‘red or green?’

New Mexico’s traditional chile industry faces hot competition from global producers

by Laura Paskus, Jun 25, 2007
Hope

After 16 years of living in the shadows in Pasco, Wash., Wendy and Erendira Santana finally win legal residency

by Melissa Hoyos, May 15, 2006