Washington

We always have a small army of local students, college and high school both, working here in the summer. Sorting, packing, working in the farm market, loading and unloading trucks, working on the "shake" crew, etc. (cherries are mechanically shaken from the trees now). Other than the shake crews, harvest crews are immigrants, mostly Guatemalan, and many are citizens. Larger packing houses have a lot of immigrants from central and eastern Europe.