Want to actively help the farmworker community? Consider an internship!
Internships are a great way to learn or apply skills, as well as a way to give back to the community. Vecinos offers flexible, unpaid internships throughout the year and are willing to work with you to fulfill needed class credit or specific job experience. Depending...
What’s in season in WNC?
As summer tip-toes back into our lives, there are plenty of delicious fruits and vegetables being cultivated right here in our beautiful mountain region! Vecinos visited Darnell Farms in Bryson City, North Carolina to check out some beautiful, red and plumpy...
National Farmworker Women’s Health Week: A Recap
Photo by: Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP) This past week was National Farmworker Women's Health Week (NFWHW), a public awareness campaign about the health risks that farmworker women and their families face, particularly pesticide...
Farmworker Activists’ Legacies
Cesar Chavez snd Dolores Huerta, Salinas, California. Photo: Victor Alemán. The legacy of farmworkers advocates like Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta is everlasting and can be felt today as we continue to advance their work for the betterment of farmworker life....
The H-2A Visa Program
Agricultural Guest Worker Visas North Carolina’s economy relies on the agricultural industry (read more from last week's blog) and with the lack of domestic workers, the H-2A visa program has become an integral part of the agricultural industry across the United...
The Importance and Risks of being a Farmworker in North Carolina
We’ve all been to grocery stores and bought our favorite fruits and vegetables, and most of the time it was with little thought – we just grabbed and went on about with our days. However, we should start paying more attention to our fresh produce, where it came from,...