A Short, Beautiful Look At How Your Favorite Berries Make It To Your Fridge

Picking berries is back-breaking work usually done in the punishing sun. It’s also work that’s done by real, live, fully realized human beings — complete with hopes and dreams and thoughts that stretch far past the fields in which they toil. It’s worth your time to hear from a few of them. Here’s your chance.

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Alvin Melathe

Mar 25, 2014

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