Good Fruit Grower takes a closer look at the tree fruit growers pursuing certification and worker training with the Equitable Food Initiative.
Equitable Food Initiative’s bottom-up, problem-solving approach and the “leadership team” itself ensure farmworkers have a voice in the workplace. This approach has recently attracted several tree fruit producers.
Kristin Kershaw Snapp, director of corporate affairs for the Naches, Washington-based grower-packer-shipper described their first leadership training: “complete transformation” for some of the employees. “We came back five days later and every single person on that leadership team is standing tall and confident in front of the whiteboard, demonstrating what they had learned about how to identify problems and how to solve them,” she added.
