http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. 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/327/16462 Matt Jenkins visits the annual Combine Demolition Derby in the tiny farming town of Lind, Wash. No publisher Matt Jenkins Communities Western Culture Crops Combine Demolition Derby Lind Washington John Deere International Harvester tractors farm communities rural life agriculture farming equipment Bill Loomis Matt Miller Josh Knodel Dennis Starring Dana Knight Travis Willson Bill Wills Karle 2011-11-21T23:58:41Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16436 In his new book, The Worst Hard Time, Tim Egan interviews survivors to tell the story of the great American Dust Bowl on the southern Great Plains in the 1930s No publisher Gail Binkly Agriculture Crops Weather Western History Socio-Economics Tim Egan The Worst Hard Time Dust Bowl Great Plains Great Depression drought dust storms farming agriculture natural disasters history homesteaders wheat farmers Ogallala Aquifer topsoil 2011-11-21T22:40:17Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/326/16434 In Blithe Tomato, Mike Madison writes engagingly about working the land on a small farm in California’s Central Valley No publisher Laura Paskus Communities Western Culture Crops Blithe Tomato Mike Madison essays anthologies small farmers farmers markets California gophers tractors lilacs Central Valley Travis Air Force Base native grasses small towns communities rural life autobiography personal experience memoi 2011-11-21T22:33:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/322/16310 Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America is the story of Rose Castillo Guilbault’s childhood journey from Mexico’s Sonoran Desert to a new life in California’s Salinas Valley No publisher Stephen J. Lyons Agriculture Crops Immigrants Rose Castillo Guilbault Farmworker’s Daughter Mexican immigrants life stories memoir autobiography agricultural laborers California agriculture garlic picking education cultural clash homesickness Mexico Pepperdine University American cultur 2011-11-11T23:35:44Z 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/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/340/16848 Brian Doyle’s new book, The Grail, lives up to its lively subtitle as it describes “a year ambling and shambling through an Oregon vineyard in pursuit of the best pinot noir in the whole wild world.” No publisher Heidi Andrew Human beings and nature Register Guard pinot noir farmers Crops climate change Brian Doyle Jesse Lange vineyards Don Lange Oregon grapes global warming The Grail Agriculture Portland Magazine winemaking Eugene 2010-08-26T21:17:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16373 The writer sings the praises of rhubarb No publisher Linda M. Hasselstrom Crops 2010-02-05T09:41:10Z 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/316/16117 The Western Growers Association says its farmers need another 20,000 workers to harvest this winter’s crop, and President Bush endorses the idea of a guest-worker program to make it easier for migrant workers in the U.S. No publisher Tim Westby Crops Farmworkers crops Western Growers Association migrant workers guest worker program illegal immigrants migrant workers Imperial Valley George W. Bush Mexican border security winter vegetables amnesty Ed Curry farmers farm work agriculture a 2010-02-05T08:56:59Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/313/16013 More Montana farmers are starting to raise oilseed crops and produce their own biofuels to save on energy costs No publisher Sam Western Agriculture Crops Renewable Energy Biofuel biodiesel energy costs organic agriculture conventional agriculture farming tilling Peggy Springer nitrogen fertilizer green manure Montana Agricultural Statistic Service Bob Quinn organic farmers Charles Holt Camelina Tad W. Patzek 2010-02-05T08:56:27Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/313/16011 Montana’s land-grant universities have so far shown little interest in promoting organic agriculture No publisher Sam Western Education Land Grant Universities Crops Montana State University David Oien Bruce Maxwell weed ecology organic agriculture industrial farming agribusiness Dow Syngenta Monsanto university funding Organic Farming Research Foundation USDA Perry Miller Robert Boettcher wheat product 2010-02-05T08:56:26Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/313/16002 Supporting sustainable, local, organic food production is one way to reduce our ecological impact and restore the West’s rural communities No publisher Greg Hanscom Crops Greg and Tara Hanscom Thanksgiving dinners organic food local farmers rural life food production eating sustainable agriculture Purple Haze Garlic Farm Stinky Blooms Flower Farm Sam Western Kerry Brophy Brodie Farquhar Betsy Marston 2010-02-05T08:56:22Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/313/16001 In Montana’s dying farm country, "vanguard agriculture" is putting people back to work on the land No publisher Sam Western Communities Socio-Economics Crops Montana mystique Brian Schweitzer rural Montana farmers Dean Folkvord Wibaux County Treasure County Chouteau County Flathead County Ravalli County Gallatin County Montana population Montana economy Park County Silver Bow County Beaverhead C 2010-02-05T08:56:21Z News Article