Putting the Future of Food in New Hands: Training Farmworkers to Become Farm Owners

Creating a new life for ourselves is always possible, and nonprofit ALBA is making that possible for countless people. They’re giving immigrant farmworkers the tools and the knowledge to improve their lives by helping them have organic farms of their own!

In 2013, Javier Zamora did what many of us would think impossible: he created an entirely new life for himself. After a working life spent in the restaurant industry, he became an organic farmer. But not just any farmer, one of the only 4% of farmers in the “Salad Bowl of the World” who are Mexican immigrants. And now, he’s helping others do the same!

By Sam Burns

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