Preserving the cultural and ancestral origins of organic agriculture to feed the local community and empower migrant farm workers.
Support Farm Workers
The foundation of the American food system relies on migrant workers. "We have a life that you wouldn't want to believe. We are not recognized. We are invisible. Yet, if we didn't exist. The food on your table wouldn't exist.” Maria started an organization called Pequeños Agricultores en California (PAC), to help migrant farmers acquire their organic certification and assist farmers when applying for grants and loans for owning their own land. According to the USDA, approximately half of all farmworkers in the United States, more than one million, are undocumented immigrants. Growers and labor contractors estimate an even higher number of 75%. Your donation can help support justice, learning, and land ownership for migrant farmers.
"Here in the United States they call it organic agriculture, but for us Latinos, it is the only way we know how to farm, it is the agriculture of our culture."
— Maria Catalán