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Farm Stand
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In Brooklyn, New York, Maritza Rodriguez and her husband Pedro run a stand at the Winsor Terrace Farmers? Market. The Rodriguez live in a Brooklyn apartment, and three days a week they drive their van out to a small plot of land that they rent in Orange County, New York, where they farm vegetables that are in demand among New York?s Hispanic population. Often they will sleep in their van out at the farm and bring the produce back to their home in New York to sell it. While many multi-generation farming families have left farming, discouraged by lack of opportunity, there is a growing population of new farmers who come from other parts of the world to the United States and see tremendous opportunities in agriculture..

