What everyone gets WRONG about farm work

Farmworkers are keeping all of us fed amid a historic pandemic, wildfires and waves of deportations in the U. S. But some still insist on calling them unskilled or lowskilled. Before the pandemic, AJ+s Yara Elmjouie traveled to Salinas, California, to experience firsthand why farm work is A LOT more difficult, complex and yes, skilled than we might imagine. HOST, PRODUCER: Yara Elmjouie PRODUCERS: Serena Ajbani, Adrienne Blaine, Karla CaraballoTorres ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Eileen Salazar SENIOR PRODUCER: Tabish Talib EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Sarah Nasr, Shadi Rahimi EDITORS: Yara Elmjouie, Tabish Talib, Adrienne Blaine CAMERA: Tabish Talib, Yara Elmjouie, Serena Ajbani SOUND: Karla CaraballoTorres FACTCHECKER: Sharmila Venkatasubban COPY EDITOR: Juliette Rocheleau DESIGN: Mat Sesti SPECIAL THANKS: Veronica MartínezMatsuda, Jocelyn Sherman, Marc Grossman, Allison Vosloh, Christopher Valadez, Ileen A. DeVault , FarmWorkers, MigrantFarmers, S