Felix Garza
“I grew up in a migrant farm worker family. We would take all the family, leave south Texas and travel to Michigan where we worked from April through September harvesting strawberries, cherries, cucumbers, tomatoes, pears, plums, peaches, and peppers. We stayed until apple season [and then we went home],” remembers
Farm Worker Ministry-Northwest
“NFWM has been a sojourner with us in the struggle seeking justice and educating our faith communities. And they are a listening presence; listening to our concerns and modeling for us how to be that listening presence for farm workers,” proclaimed Ed Brandt, former Board Chair and current member of
Honoring a Life of Service – Lupe Murguria, a worker-priest-organizer
Lupe Murguria receiving an award honoring his service to the National Farm Worker Ministry, presented to him by Cesar Chavez, leader of the movement; and former NFWM directors Fred Eyster and Chris Hartmire. Lupe began his tenure with the California Migrant Ministry in 1968 under Chris’s leadership. When the National
Camp Justice Pin, 2007
In September 2006, the United Farm Workers (UFW) launched Camp Justice, an initiative that brought volunteers to sleep, eat, and live at the UFW’s historic Forty Acres facility outside Delano, California to help organizers speak with thousands of Central Valley farm workers about their wages and working conditions. “Every day
Fred Eyster
Remembered for his gentleness and devotion to his faith, Reverend Fred Eyster (UCC) served as the National Farm Worker Ministry’s Co-Executive Director with Sister Pat Drydyk from 1982 until 1986. It was a transitional time in the Ministry’s history. For the first time, the Ministry made the decision to expand
Sam Trickey
True to his character, when asked his most illustrative memory of his work with the National Farm Worker Ministry, Sam Trickey waxes poetic not on the moments in the spotlight or the headline grabbing wins, but on a short, simple conversation with a farm worker. In 2018, as he walked
Joan Preiss
“It would take many more lines to enumerate her [Joan’s] attributes. One thing, we who knew her would agree, is that all she was, all she did, was for the love of justice. We enjoyed her reports to the Board and her tiaras, necklaces and lapel buttons; she would call
Threemile Canyon
“This was new. There was no boycott associated with it,” said Julie Taylor, Executive Director of the National Farm Worker Ministry, about the United Farm Workers’ campaign to improve working conditions for dairy workers at Threemile Canyon Farms, the largest dairy farm in the country. “Advocacy had changed so much
El Cortito
“In the late 1960s and 1970s, el cortito [a twenty-four inch shorthandled hoe that required farm workers to spend hours hunched over in the fields] was the most potent symbol of all that was wrong with farm work in California: The tool was unnecessary, and farmers in most other states
Pat Drydyk
A beloved Sister of St. Francis of Assissi, Sister Pat Drydyk is remembered and revered for her kindness, her fierce commitment to justice, and her big heart. The first woman to lead the National Farm Worker Ministry, Sister Pat was co-Director with Fred Eyster until 1986 when she took over
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