Farmworkers face a disproportionate burden of COVID-19. Getting them vaccinated is vital, but challenging. The population’s health inequities led Santa Barbara County’s Public Health Department to launch “health equity clinics,” which help overcome obstacles to vaccination, such as language barriers and mistrust.

Santa Barbara County's all-hands approach to vaccinating farmworkers

"Beyond the Furrows" is a 12-part series about farmworkers in Santa Barbara County. Through feature reporting, KCBX's Francisco Martinez explores a variety of issues this population faces, including wage theft, labor trafficking, access to health care, problems with immigration status and more. Journalism combined with intimate profiles of individual farmworkers provide a comprehensive, in-depth look at the people who make the food we enjoy possible."Beyond the Furrows" received a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for News Series and Society of Professional Journalists Northern California's community journalism award."Beyond the Furrows" was funded by a grant from the Sunflower Foundation.

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Santa Barbara County's all-hands approach to vaccinating farmworkers

Santa Barbara County's all-hands approach to vaccinating farmworkers