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Vegetables at a Whole Foods Market in La Jolla, California. Much of its produce comes from the state’s Central Valley, where it's picked by migrant farmworkers.

How the produce aisle looks to a migrant farmworker

February 4, 2015Business

How does picking the tomato compare to the onion? And what about strawberries? One Mexican American migrant farmworker who lives in California’s Central Valley took us to the produce aisle to tell us what he sees when he’s at the supermarket.

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Immigrants in New Hampshire are creating an unlikely ethnic food hub

October 6, 2014Food

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