farmworkers
Agricultural hired hands
Farmworkers are people employed to do agricultural labor, typically on farms or in fields harvesting crops, tending livestock, or operating machinery.
The term often carries connotations of seasonal, physically demanding work performed by hired laborers rather than farm owners.
In American usage, farmworkers frequently refers specifically to migrant agricultural workers, many of whom travel to follow harvest seasons.
The farmworkers started picking strawberries at dawn.
Fostering growth through care
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- plowingTurning earth for crops
planting · fertilizing · hoeing · weeding · pruning · tractor · greenhouse · orchard
One who relocates
- seasonalRecurring at fixed intervals
- wagesPayment for work
- overtimeWork beyond scheduled hours
- shiftsMoves or work periods
crew · workforce · toil · manual · backbreaking · exploitation · bracero · unionize
Act of selecting
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- reapingCutting crops for collection
- threshingExtracting grain from stalks
- winnowingSeparating grain from chaff
bundling · fieldwork · produce · baskets · crates · ladders · sickle · scythe
Rural area beyond towns
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- rusticRural and unrefined
- bucolicIdyllically rural
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
village · hamlet · peasant · smallholding · crofter · tenant · sharecropper · yeoman
Capacity to endure indefinitely
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- organicFrom living matter
- regenerativeAble to renew itself
- agroecologyEcological approach to farming
cultivation
Fostering growth through care
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
plowing · planting · fertilizing · hoeing · weeding · pruning · tractor · greenhouse · orchard · vineyard
migrant
One who relocates
shifts · crew · workforce · toil · manual · backbreaking · exploitation · bracero · unionize · picketing
picking
Act of selecting
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- reapingCutting crops for collection
- threshingExtracting grain from stalks
winnowing · bundling · fieldwork · produce · baskets · crates · ladders · sickle · scythe · harvester
countryside
Rural area beyond towns
homestead · village · hamlet · peasant · smallholding · crofter · tenant · sharecropper · yeoman · hacienda
sustainability
Capacity to endure indefinitely
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- organicFrom living matter
- regenerativeAble to renew itself
- California historystatehood, Spanish colonization, Spanish mission, gold rush, Sutter's Mill
- agriculturefarms, crops, farmers, crop yields, cattle ranching
- workersemployee, employees, laborer, laborers, wage earner
- workforceemployee, employees, labor force, employer, labor
- farm jobsfield hands, harvester, picker, fruit picker, berry picker
- farmworkharvesting, planting, milking, tilling, baling
farmworkersoffice workers
Indoor professional employees
white-collar workers · corporate employees · factory workers · bankers · accountants
farmworkerslandowners
Holders of real property
plantation owners · ranchers · growers · landlords · farmers