Article 6V538 Food security project helping farm workers springs from ashes of wildfires

Food security project helping farm workers springs from ashes of wildfires

by
Amal Ahmed, Yes! Magazine
from US news | The Guardian on (#6V538)

An Oregon coalition is sourcing food locally and offering it free of charge - with no questions about immigration status

As wildfires swept through southern Oregon in 2020, killing at least 11 people, destroying thousands of homes and burning more than 1m acres of land, the region's farm workers faced a brutal choice: stay and work through the growing haze of smoke and the approaching blaze, or lose out on their daily wages.

Farm workers across the US are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, feeling its effects - from natural disasters to heat - first and, often, the worst.

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