Lessons learned from a box of raisins

It bothered Bianca Pulido to see her mother, a single parent with four kids, come home exhausted in the afternoon only to have to leave again for her second job.  So last summer, Bianca joined her mother and other farmworkers in the fields of Arvin, California. The backbreaking work – picking grapes and drying them in the sizzling Central Valley sun – gave her a new respect and appreciation for her mother. "I believe that teenagers should experience working in the fields... I now know how hard it is to earn money, so every time I want to buy something I think twice about it. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need it, or do I just want it?'" Read her story on South Kern Sol.