Cucumber Harvest in Texas
The senior chief of this cucumber picking crew confided, “we like this work, have our own farms and make good money.” “But,” he continued, “we liked it better when our children could help. They need to learn to work. It could keep them out of trouble. We are proud to be vegetable pickers.” When we purchase a cucumber, “organic” or “non-organic,” in a retail market, we support a pyramid of entrepreneurs from seed growers to planters, irrigators, fertilizers, pickers, haulers…