The pandemic brought many challenges to our community, including access to food. According to the Oregon Food Bank, “Oregon’s food insecurity rate rose 21% between 2019 and 2020, with the height of the pandemic resulting in nearly 1.7 million neighbors seeking food assistance — double what we saw in the prior year.”

In Oregon, almost 90% of agriculture workers are Latinx but only about 4% of farm business owners are Latinx. Daniela Perez talks about how the Adelante Mujeres farmers markets are working to solve this.

It's a sunny day in November, and Alejandro Tecum and his students are masked up at a community garden. Together, they work the soil, preparing it for winter.