Dear John,

Farm labor has long been one of the most dangerous and physically challenging jobs in the United States. It has also been one of the worst paid. For generations, bottom-of-the-barrel produce prices from major corporate buyers kept farmworkers poor, while widespread systemic wage theft eroded the meager income they managed to earn at long-stagnant piece rates.

But if the Fair Food Program has proven anything, it's that farmworker poverty is not inevitable. In just the last 10 years, the Fair Food Program has put over $36,000,000 into farmworkers' pockets through Penny-per-Pound bonuses paid for by Participating Buyers. And from time clock requirements that accurately reflect worker hours, to a fair bucket-filling standard, to a 24/7 complaint line that has helped workers recover nearly $500,000 in owed wages, the Fair Food Program has effectively eradicated long-standing practices of wage theft in agriculture.

Imagine what we can do in 10 more years. With your support, we can advance economic justice for all of the nation’s farmworkers. Sign up to become a Fair Food Sustainer today!

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When the Fair Food Program becomes the norm for U.S. agriculture, and not the exception, these hard-won gains will spread from state to state, crop to crop, ensuring that the farmworkers who put food on our families' tables every day can put food on their own kitchen tables, too.

Over these 10 days of the Summer Sustainer Drive, we are asking for your help to welcome 10 new monthly donors each day – both to celebrate how far we've come, and to build a strong foundation for the next decade of Fair Food. Can you donate $10 a month to help us build that future?

To bring the message home today, we'll leave you with this beautifully illustrated story of Immokalee farmworker Udelia and her family, a story we first shared in one of our earliest Summer Sustainer Drives that still rings true today: