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Driving a party van across 25,000 miles to help California farm workers

Listen 10 min MORE Blasting Selena from a mile away, Ricardo Castorena drives through California’s farmland distributing essentials and joy. Photo courtesy of Ricardo Castorena. Richard Castorena coordinates resources to California farmworkers through his organization Binational of Central California. Dubbed “El Profe during his time as an adult educator, he recognized many students, who were farm workers, didn’t have basic school essentials such as notebooks and backpacks. He organized getting them supplies, but the pandemic brought a deeper need. On any given day, Castorena drives a van from Bakersfield to Modesto distributing PPE supplies and food. He has clocked over 25,000 miles during the past year and has reached more than 70,000 essential farmworkers in California’s Central Valley with the help of Radio Lazar’s party van.

Transformation: cooking, eating, and lending a hand one year into the pandemic

Transformation: cooking, eating, and lending a hand one year into the pandemic Listen 57 min MORE Michael Flood, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, says that the pandemic has led some people to seek food assistance for the first time. Photo courtesy of Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. It’s now 52 weeks since the restaurants, bars, gyms and schools first shut down, not knowing what the future looked like.  Good Food speaks with chefs, activists, and farmers about their experiences over this year of transformation. Musician and rapper Hugh Augustine turned to vegan cooking when his promotional tour was canceled. Lisa Gross moved her intimate classes at League of Kitchens to a digital platform. Yoonjin Hwang shares the ups and downs of her restaurant, Spoon by H, in this week’s installments of “In the Weeds.” Los Angeles Regional Food Bank Executive Director Michael Flood reflects

Amid a crushing pandemic, this party van is a lifeline for California farmworkers

Amid a crushing pandemic, this party van is a lifeline for California farmworkers [Los Angeles Times :: BC-FARMWORKERS-PARTYVAN:LA]

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Amid a crushing pandemic, this party van is a lifeline for California farmworkers [Los Angeles Times :: BC-FARMWORKERS-PARTYVAN:LA] SELMA, Calif. The van rattling down a field road stood out even in a cloud of dust, its paint job the colors of birthday cake frosting, Christmas tree lights, red-purple-yellow-blue confetti. A party van helps when trying to reach farmworkers in dark pandemic times. But Ricardo Castorena, 47, found that out by accident. He’d only been trying to get free gas when he made the deal with the radio station. In March, when the pandemic first closed bars and festivals, the sales manager of Radio Lazer KLUN-FM 103.1 feared the station would lose name recognition a name announced in promos by a galloping telenovela voice backed with the sounds of a laser-gun battle.