"Melissa Legaria, who began doing farmwork with her parents at age 13, remembers realizing that she was being taken advantage of the first summer she started working. 'I went to the grocery store and I tried to buy some blueberries,' Legaria said. 'I had just spent the whole summer picking blueberries with my parents. The price was so expensive, I couldn’t afford it. I had other things I needed to buy, and it was really sad because the only reason I couldn’t afford was because I was getting paid so little while picking blueberries. I was very aware that my work was being exploited.'”
~ Sierra Lyons
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/bipoc-farmers-agriculture-sept
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