Mar 30, 2011
Gainesville marks National Farm Workers Awareness Week

As the spring sun ripens Alto Straughn’s blueberry crop, more than a thousand seasonal workers are beginning to descend on his farm east of Waldo, where they will pick the plump berries for about a month before moving on to another crop somewhere else. Gainesville Press

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