Spotlighting the immigrant apple workers of New York - Report for America

Spotlighting the immigrant apple workers of New York - Report for America

PERU, New York – At Rulfs Orchard, men travel from Jamaica yearly to live and work in the Adirondack community from April to November. This is part of a long tradition of Jamaican workers who have helped to sustain the orchard since the 1980s, when they began recruiting laborers under the federal government’s H-2A visa program for temporary agricultural work. For this feature, David Escobar used multimedia skills to tell the story of a group of …