We as a country wouldn’t be able to survive without farmworkers. They work long, thankless hours in fields under all kinds of extreme weather conditions picking the produce that we later buy at the grocery store and use to feed our families. But their pay is so low that upward mobility and promotions are incredibly difficult to achieve. That’s why we love hearing stories like Maria Catalán‘s, who recently made history as the first Latina farmworker in California to own her own farm. She currently owns 55 acres of land in Hollister, located in San Benito County south of San Jose, where she runs her organic farm Catalán Farm. This historic feat comes during a time when 92 percent of farmworkers in California are Latinx and 77 percent are male, according to the California Research Bureau. Of the 3.4 million agriculture producers in the U.S, only 3 percent identified as Latinx in 2022. Catalán’s journey is truly one of a kind but she also recognizes that there are many migrant women who ar...