Labor in food and farming systems, migrant workers, labor rights, and changes in production-side work.
Introduced stud rams like Suffolks and Dorpers are vastly larger in frame than Ordos Fine-wool ewes, so difficult births from uterine torsion are frequent. Vet Dayang in S Banner averages forty to fifty Caesarean sections a day, yet herders often delay calling him while trying traditional remedies.
Four interns from Foodthink’s first ecological agriculture internship cohort recall at the Open Day how six months working the land — from Yinlin Farm to Yuefeng Island Organic Farm — changed their views on food, labour intensity, and life choices.
Hard farm labour need not stem from a lack of strength — keeping your back straight, using a broadfork instead of a hoe, and alternating tasks, drawn from German organic farm training and the US Farmworkers’ Ergonomics handbook, make the work easier and kinder to the body.
