Introducing the Farmers

Photographs and video stills introduce some of the farmers interviewed by Cynthia Vagnetti in her field research. Photos and video images by Cynthia Vagnetti from the Voices in the Field Collection.

“We get up and do it every day because it’s a good life and I think the children are benefiting from it. It allows us to work together as a family a lot. It allows us to do things that other families don’t get to do, spend a lot of time together, even though they’re hard hours and sometimes long and tiring.”

Antonio Monzanares, La Puente, New Mexico – Rio Arriba County from People Sustaining the Land, by Cynthia Vagnetti 2002.