PHOTO: Figs on a tree branch, similar to the ones we picked in Figarden, California. Getty Images. It took about an hour to get to Delano after leaving Bakersfield. We were all hungry, but for some reason food no longer mattered much, especially for those of us that were older. We wanted to find work. The local farm employment office gave us the name and address of a Mexican labor contractor that needed…
Pedro ChavezDecember 1, 2015