Trina Moyles is a freelance journalist, photographer, human rights activist, and community organizer. For over a decade, Moyles has worked with grassroots organizations to support rural development initiatives in Latin America, the Caribbean, East Africa, and Canada. In 2012, she worked with The Urban Farmer to facilitate a permaculture internship program in central Cuba. In 2015, the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation recognized Moyles as a “Top 30 Under 30” for her outstanding commitments to supporting grassroots development in rural communities. To read more, visit: www.trinamoyles.com and www.womenwhodig.com
Farming as Resistance
It had been 10 long years of fighting, but even a decade wouldn’t age or persuade the women to put down their stones, or to keep Amelia’s tongue in her mouth, to silence her words in a language that wasn’t her own.
June 19, 2018
Farming and Food for the Soul
I feel very blessed to be a Cuban woman, a farmer, and a teacher. I wake up early, I spend all day on the farm, working hard, managing the workers, planting, harvesting, selling, teaching—I do all of this out of love for my work. My work is my life.
May 17, 2018
Female Migrant Farmworkers Push Back Against Machismo and Abuse in California’s Wine Country
Viticulture, or la uva, “the grape,” as Sofia and other Latino farmworkers refer to the sector, also draws undocumented workers, mostly from Mexico and Central America. Journeying to the United States to work is the dream held and died for by hundreds of thousands, but the reality is hard work, long hours, and meager pay.
July 8, 2016