Mission

To create opportunities for limited-resource farmers through land-based training in organic farm management.

Despite years of farming experience, Latino farmworkers earn just $30,000 in the fields, with few avenues for advancement. These workers, are too often dismissed as uneducated or unskilled. ALBA knows better, investing in their development to help them advance their careers or become organic farm owners.

The Big Idea

The Farmworker Opportunity Center is the biggest investment in ALBA's history and will take a significant step toward building America's only campus dedicated to farmworker learning and advancement. ALBA has outgrown our workspace which inhibits our service to participants. In addition, ALBA envisions hosting other emerging programs and sustainable farming stakeholders to share our model and discuss strategies on achieving our common goal of achieving greater equity and sustainability in agriculture. We will also attract researchers and the media to promote the program and the potential of Latino farmers to lead the next generation of organic farmers.

ALBA was very beneficial for me. I saw farming as just planting and harvesting. ALBA showed me how to be a businessman and a better farmer.

- Rigo (confidential)