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Tag: farmworkers

a large building that will be vecinos' new community health hub is pictured against a bright blue sky. the building is beige and grey
Posted inRural Health

A new clinic to meet WNC Latinos’ medical, mental and social health needs

by Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven July 25, 2022July 24, 2022

By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven In far western Macon County, U.S. 441 branches off and descends into downtown Franklin. Just before the interchange, a massive single-story beige and gray building sits empty on the east side of the rushing road. But on a sunny Friday morning in July, it wasn’t so. A pair of stray dogs meandered […]

shows men bent over green plants, pulling peppers into baskets
Posted inEnvironmental Health

Extreme heat prompts effort to protect farmworkers and other laborers

by Daily Yonder December 28, 2021December 27, 2021
Posted inEnvironmental Health, Featured, Mental Health

Hurricane Dorian thrashes farmer’s tobacco crop

by Greg Barnes September 6, 2019September 9, 2019
A field of corn that's leaning over with pines trees behind it.
Posted inFeatured

For one Brunswick County farmer, it feels like hurricanes “have become the new norm”

by Greg Barnes September 5, 2019April 13, 2021
A collapsed barn with trees behind it and a yellow lab to the left of the photo
Posted inRural Health

As mental health needs rise among farmers, experts are reaching out

by Taylor Knopf February 27, 2019March 3, 2022
Older white man wearing shorts and a baseball cap holds a beer and looks at a building in ruins.
Posted inMental Health

Mental Health Concerns as Florence Ruins Farms, Crops, Harvests

by Taylor Knopf November 13, 2018September 6, 2022

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