http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.7/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. No publisher Taylor Wiles community centers gangs high school dropouts at-risk youth Colleen Bailey gang-intervention programs John Steinbeck farmworkers literacy programs Silver Star National Steinbeck Center Western education Hispanic youth GREEN JUSTICE Latino culture 2012-05-02T15:15:28Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.20/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. No publisher Sarah Gilman Nelida Martinez industrial agriculture rural life Sarita Schaffer organic farmers Pure Nelida young farmers farmers markets Lizette Flores locavores small farms USDA Mexican immigrants Viva Farms farmworkers sustainable agriculture Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association farm incubators Intervale Latino farmers food production Center for Rural Affairs small-scale agriculture 2011-11-23T00:41:02Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.20/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. No publisher Jennifer Langston Nelida Martinez industrial agriculture rural life Sarita Schaffer organic farmers Pure Nelida young farmers Center for Rural Affairs Lizette Flores locavores small farms USDA Mexican immigrants Viva Farms farmworkers farm incubators Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association sustainable agriculture Intervale Latino farmers food production farmers markets small-scale agriculture 2011-11-29T21:17:27Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.16/bordering-on-injustice Jimmy Santiago Baca's novel A Glass of Water compassionately describes the lives of Mexican immigrants. No publisher Don Waters novels A Glass of Water illegal immigrants farmworkers Jimmy Santiago Baca Hispanic fiction 2010-02-05T09:03:46Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/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. No publisher David Frey Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck illegal immigrants farmworkers poverty migrant workers agriculture 2010-02-05T08:58:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/articles/the-fruits-of-their-labor In Delta County, Colorado, a pilot program sent prisoners to work on three farms during the summer of 2008. No publisher Marty Durlin, Andrea Appleton, Jay Canode and Emily Steinmetz farmworkers prison labor agriculture inmates prison 2010-02-05T09:14:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/350/17112 Following a high-profile raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, undocumented farmworkers in Colorado’s San Luis Valley live in fear No publisher Eric Mack Immigration and Customs Enforcement Illegal immigrants farmworkers San Luis Valley ICE raids 2010-07-21T21:54:27Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/318/16191 In Fields That Dream: A Journey to the Roots of Our Food, Jenny Kurzweil illustrates how agricultural injustices can be combated by purchasing food from socially conscious local producers No publisher Annie Dawid Crops Jenny Kurzweil Fields that Dream sustainable agriculture agribusiness corporate agriculture farming organic farming pesticides migrant workers Andrew Stout farmworkers Steve and Beverly Phillips antibiotics dairy farms family farms 2010-02-05T09:33:14Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/297/15471 California farmworkers fight for stricter regulations on hand weeding, only to find themselves at odds with organic farmers. No publisher Lissa James Crops California agriculture organic farming hand weeding restrictions Cesar Chavez short-handled hoe law California OSHA farmworkers worker protection back injuries USDA California Sustainable Agriculture Working Group Aimee Shreck Rio Farms Mont 2010-02-05T09:24:31Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/368/17649 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. No publisher Rebecca Clarren Awareness Month sexual assault Sexual harassment farmworkers Bandana Project Sexual Assault agricultural labor immigrant women Agriculture 2010-08-02T19:55:44Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/322/16302 After 16 years of living in the shadows in Pasco, Wash., Wendy and Erendira Santana finally win legal residency No publisher Melissa Hoyos Agriculture Crops Communities Socio-Economics Immigrants Wendy Santana Erendira Santana illegal immigrants undocumented workers undocumented students Latino culture Gabriel Portugal May 1 day without immigrants high school students political involvement Hispanics coyotes border crossing farmworkers 2011-11-11T20:29:30Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/322/16298 Small Mexican farming towns such as Francisco Villa in Sonora are emptied of their young men when the lack of good-paying local jobs sends them north of the border No publisher Michael Marizco Immigrants Mexican economy illegal immigration migrant workers agricultural workers jobs farmworkers Francisco Villa Sonora Pancho Villa Casimiro Castillo tomato growers Mexican farmers NAFTA wages economic opportunity maquiladoras peso trade defici 2011-12-08T23:12:25Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/321/16272 The United Farm Workers has signed a contract with agricultural labor-supply company Global Horizons protecting the rights of guest farmworkers No publisher Brett Wilkison Crops United Farm Workers unions farmworkers agriculture Global Horizons guest workers farm labor agricultural supply labor companies contracts workers rights medical care right to air grievances Erik Nicholson Mordechai Orian Washington Departmen 2011-11-11T18:59:54Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/306/15783 In Yakima County, Wash., the California-based labor contractor Global Horizons is stirring up controversy among local Latino farmworkers by bringing in hundreds of guest workers from Thailand to pick fruit No publisher Tony Barboza Communities Socio-Economics Immigrant Workers Crops Agriculture farmworkers migrant workers guest workers immigration reform illegal immigration orchards fruit pickers Global Horizons Latino communities Radio KDNA Erasto Garcia H-2A labor contractors Farmworker Justice Fund Bruce Goldstein 2012-03-05T22:53:57Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/349/17081 New Mexico’s traditional chile industry faces hot competition from global producers No publisher Laura Paskus chile farmers globalization chili companies farmworkers New Mexico agriculture 2010-07-29T23:57:24Z News Article