Book Review: Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies '

Garden Sweet Farm is located about two miles North of Old Town Fort Collins, Colorado. To get there from where I live, I drove North on Shield street. To the left and near the Larimer County Sheriff Fire Rescue Cache had a little pound with a fanatic view for me to look at when I drove there every morning. At the first sight of sunlight, the pound had some fog just a little bit above the water with the perfect views of the mountains in its background. Amy Kafka is the owner of the Garden Sweet farm and she has been a farmer for about fifteen years now. Amy has a degree in Horticulture from Colorado State University. Her trusty right hand man is Ryan Wilson and they work together to make Garden Sweet they way it is today. Amy used to rent a farming property, however, about three years ago she decided to buy 9.5 acre of land and start her permanent …show more content…
My service learning experience reminded me of a book title “Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies” by Holmes (2013). In the book Holmes talked about the work that migrant farm workers must do for us to get cheap berries at the store. The migrate from Mexico to come to the U.S. to make a living, but we abused them because they are not migrants with paper works. Along with that they had occupational work injuries that they had to deal with to earn a living. At Garden Sweet Farm, Amy, Ryan, and their workers has to do a lot of lifting, bending, walking, and standing on a daily base. I did not work their long enough to know if they have a safety training where the workers are taught about repetition work and how that can cause them health issues in the long run. Occupational work injuries in farm workers is a serious health issues and it is also understudied. Working there for three hours and I can start to feel my body to ached, it could be that I have never done this type of work before or it could be that the farm work does its toll on the