What I took from this reading is that the majority of Americans
in California have the idea that the majority of farmers are white. When in
reality the farms are owned by whites and the shops where the produce is sold
is staffed by whites, but the ones doing the farming are of a minority. To me
this could be made better by educating the people. To my understanding the
majority of farms in that area have been passed down for generations and the
workers the minority do have the choice of where they work for those that are
not immigrants as the treatment of immigrants is completely different. As for
the ones selling the food at markets those selling the food if they are not
part of the family then they are hired employees and the farm could be
excluding minorities selling for them, but it could also just be them hiring
whoever they can afford to pay to sell their product. For the most part from what I understood the problems they are discussing are easily fixed.
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Slightly related, I know of a farm/bakery stand at a farmers market that hires local kids to actually vend at markets. The farmers have other stuff to do and the business does multiple markets on a given Saturday. I think getting local kids involved is kinda cool.
That said though, most of the time the farm I work for is represented by a 30 year old white guy (except occasionally me!), because that currently makes up the entire farm crew!
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