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Plenty of food, but not for all farmworkers 

On a summer morning in southern Idaho, the day breaks early, before 6 a.m. The air is stale, never fully…

Farm workers harvesting yellow bell peppers near Gilroy, California.

Trailer park residents hope to buy the land beneath them

Just outside Durango, Colorado there’s a trailer park called Westside that I’ve been driving by all my life. Yet residents…

Is the American Dream fading in the West?

I recently spent two days with a Mexican national named Alfredo because his experience and many of his surprising opinions…

Willing workers are right at the border

Photo by Barbara Zandoval via Unsplash

Hard lessons from the border

Animals have been blocked from migration, their food chains disrupted. Now, exotic weeds, insects and diseases can use the lengthy scar as a nick point for invasion, ultimately disrupting far more than what human border-crossers can do. Photo by Greg Bulla on Unsplash