NEWS + EVENTS
Free School for Farmworkers presents a special encore session of
Athletes In Overalls - Movement Health & Injury Prevention with Labor Movement, LLC
Anyone who has farmed for a day, a week, a month, or a full season knows that farming is a MARATHON (maybe a series of marathons!), and not a sprint.
When we look at farmwork through the lens of sport and athleticism, what changes for us? How does that impact our diet, our noticing in our bodies, our sleep hygiene, our confidence in how we advocate for ourselves?
At the next Free School session, longtime farmer and farmworker, strength athlete and personal trainer, Cynthia Flores of Labor-Movement will be discussing movement health and wellness for farmworkers from an athletic perspective.
Cynthia asks: What does it mean to be a farmworker and an athlete? What is movement self-advocacy?
You can expect to learn tips on managing food, fluid, sleep, and stress for best performance over long days and the season. The discussion will focus on safe lifts using hinges and squats, reducing potential of low back pain or injury, and moving and carrying loads.
There will be time for Q&A and discussion so bring your questions and experiences!
Join us Tuesday, March 31 at 4pm PT/7pm ET on zoom.
Accessibility information: This session will be facilitated in English and simultaneously interpreted into Spanish by Cooperativa Brujúlas. Closed captioned will also be available.
Please note that Free School for Farmworkers sessions are a farmworker-only space.
*We define a farmworker as someone working on a farm they do not own, for or without pay, including interns, apprentices, cooperative workers and aspiring farmworkers. If you have questions about whether you are eligible to participate, please contact Anita Adalja at anita@notourfarm.org
Co-hosted by Not Our Farm, UW-Extension, and FairShare CSA Coalition.
Flyer designed by Olivia Wischmeyer
Not Our Farm is thrilled and honored to present the final performance and virtual exhibition from our 2025-26 All the Farm’s a Stage fellows. For the past six months, 11 farmworkers from different regions and farmworking experiences have been gathering to learn about and discuss farmworker movements, land defense struggles, and practices of storytelling as political strategy.
At our final event, you will experience creative projects across a range of mediums from: Daniela Peña Kusnir, Ọmọlará Williams McCallister, Sun Smith, Caitlan Nockideneh, Mar Mendoza-Cárdenas, Lucecita Cruz, kai’tondre menafee, joan hwang, isa peña, Xander Hucklebeary, and Lorenze Cordova. You can read more about each of these brilliant farmworker-organizer-artists on our website.
Mark your calendars and please join us virtually on Friday, April 3 at 4:30pm PT / 5:30pm MT / 7:30pm ET.
Accessibility information: This event will be facilitated in English. It will be simultaneously interpreted into ASL and simultaneously interpreted and translated into Spanish by Cooperativa Brujúlas and Jeanette Ramirez. Closed captioning will also be available.
This event will be recorded and shared with all registrants.
Flyer by Maebh Aguilar
NEWS
Good Food Jobs • It’s Not Broken by Anita Adalja
Good Food Jobs • Dear Farm Owner / Boss… by Mallika Singh
Good Food Jobs • Not a Team Player by Danni Simonik
Edible New Mexico • Farmworker Health Here at Home by Anita Adalja
The Food Safety Dish Podcast • Community Care is Good Food Safety with Anita Adalja
Civil Eats • Queer, BIPOC Farmers are Working for a More Inclusive and Just Farming Culture
The Guardian • Radishes and Rainbows: the LGBTQ growers reimagining the traditional family farm
Ambrook Research • Are Farm Apprentices and Interns Getting Paid What They Deserve?
Growing for Market • Extreme heat on the farm: Exploring OSHA’s proposed heat rule
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