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"Jorge" shared this video from where he is hard at work pruning cherry trees in the Madera CA area. Pruning trees is hard work as holding these shears up all day long as you climb up and down ladders causes serious strain on workers' arms, shoulders and back. #WeFeedYou
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Justo" is harvesting lettuce in Madera County CA. He labors 6 days a week, working 8-10 hrs shifts. "It's hard repetitive work. We have to be bent over all the time. We cut the lettuce clean off the extra leaves bag it and put it in a box. I earn minimum wage." #WeFeedYou
November 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Without farmworkers we wouldn’t be able to celebrate Thanksgiving. Be thankful for their hard work this holiday season!

Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!

#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
You can see the raspberry canes growing in the background. This worker is going through the flats that were just picked and filling the clamshell retail boxes. She is making sure only high quality berries are included and the weight is accurate.
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A spinach harvest worker used a drone to capture this field. Not far from the Mexican border in Yuma, AZ these fields look almost infinite.
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
These are organic onions in Oregon that were bagged after digging, to allow the mud to dry. They are then dumped back out into rows for a machine to collect — the dirt falls off easily once dry.
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
These workers are harvesting celery. They use a curved blade to cut and trim the bunches. It is often packaged right in the field by another crew of workers.
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A farm worker shared this from where he's harvesting romaine lettuce. The crew has 26 workers. One group harvests the lettuce, the next group bags it and the last group puts it in the boxes.
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Green beans are durable enough to be largely harvested by machines and then sorted and cleaned for quality by hand. The specialty varieties are more likely to be harvested by hand in a process similar to the work in this video. (Video shows snap peas from Salinas, CA.)
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This broccoli isn’t ready for harvest yet. This is an irrigator working to connect the pipes between the rows. The pipes weigh 25-30 pounds and will need to be moved around many times so the broccoli can be watered thoroughly but efficiently.
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This video is from this summer’s peak cherry picking season in WA. If workers work super fast they can make extra money during these 4-6 weeks. This worker reported being paid $4.50/22 lb bucket. He is very fast and averaged 55-65 buckets/day. It was around 100° that day.
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Turnips (like these in central CA) are either harvested by hand or unearthed by machine and then cleaned and sorted by hand. These hand harvest workers were being paid by the bucket of trimmed turnips. The yellow tag is their tally to keep track.
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Here is the poblano chile harvest in Santa Clara County. The workers harvest the peppers, then take their full buckets over to a conveyor belt and dump them on it. A worker then directs them into different bins.
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Fresh herbs (whether sold fresh or processed by drying) are delicate. They are often hand harvested, like this parsley in Ventura County, CA.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Workers here are cutting the tough pumpkin vines. Other workers will then collect and sort the pumpkins by size.

Pumpkin (like okra and cucumber) has tiny hairs on the vines that can be irritating to the skin, eyes and respiratory system.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM