Sandra García, 62, near her home in Poplar, CA (April 30th, 2019). She left Mexico when she was 15 to work in the fields with her family. She recently retired from picking grapes and now tries to raise awareness about chlorpyrifos toxicity in her own community.
Farm worker Lupita Gonzalez, 25, in an orange grove near Lindsay, CA (May 1st, 2019). She has worked in the fields for 12 years. “Pesticides are an everyday thing for me. It goes in my eyes, in my nose, in my mouth, on my skin, eight to ten hours a day. Short-term, it means dizziness, itchiness, sneezing. Long-term… I’ll find out.”
An orange grove near Ducor, CA (April 30th, 2019). “Of course I know they spray a lot of stuff in there, a farmworker said. But you got to work and make sure your family can eat.”
An orange grove near Lindsay, CA (May 1st, 2019).
Irrigation canal near Poplar, CA.
A citrus packing facility in Lindsay, CA. Mural by artist Gary Kerby, inaugurated in 1999.
Ducor, CA.
Lindsay, CA.