by Kacey Swartley | May 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
This has been throbbing in my mind and heart: the faces are changing—and will continue to change. But the work… feels the same. When I think about the conversations I’ve had—with the one who is just beginning, and the one who is thinking of leaving—I start to see...
by Kacey Swartley | May 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
“I don’t know if it’s still worth it.” –He didn’t say it right away. We had been talking for a while—about the season, the work, how things were going. The conversation felt familiar at first. The kind you have after years of doing this. I’ve known him for some time...
by Kacey Swartley | May 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
A story he wants to tell and I want to write. He has been coming here for more than twenty years. Not as a visitor. Not as someone passing through. He comes when the fields need hands. He leaves when the season ends. And then he comes back again, year after year. The...
by Kacey Swartley | May 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
For many agricultural workers in rural Western North Carolina, accessing healthcare today means more than finding a clinic. It also means navigating technology — patient portals, telehealth appointments, emails, messages, passwords, and online health information —...
by Marianne Martinez | Apr 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
The One Who Is Just Beginning This work is not new… but for him, it was. I noticed him early in the morning. Not because he stood out—but because he didn’t move like the others. There is a rhythm in the field. A way the body learns to bend, to reach, to...
by Marianne Martinez | Mar 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
By Yolanda Pinzon Uribe, Outreach and Special Programs Director We cannot talk about change without remembering what came before. There is a tendency to look at what is happening today in the fields and think of it as something new—something recent, something tied...
