As Extreme Heat Blasts Farms, More Harvests Are Taking Place in the Dark

In the summer months, Flor Sanchez and the members of her harvest crew rise before dawn and arrive at a cherry orchard in Washington state’s Yakima Valley when there is only the slightest hint of daylight.  “We use headlamps,” she says, to carry ladders to the trees. Climbing up into the branches to harvest the … Continued

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