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Farmworkers have own cooperative

WHATCOM — Modesto Hernandez walks up and down the rows of raspberry bushes, where some of the first berries of the year are nearly falling off the branch. He is showing volunteers the best ones to pick. 

“This one, and this one,” he said, tugging on the dark red berries. “These are the ripest.”

Hernandez is the co-leader of Cooperativa Tierra y Libertad, where he and co-leader Ramon Torres have established a pesticide-free, farmworker-run berry cooperative on 65 acres of land on Central Road between Everson and Lynden. Hernandez and Torres began renting the land last October, and this summer marks their first berry harvest.

Read the rest at the Lynden Tribune

 

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