A tractor operator hauls a load of freshly boxed head lettuce off a field on Lee Road under the Taylor Farms label.
PHOTO: Leafy crop harvest underway
How Farmworkers Outlawed ‘El Cortito’ 50 Years Ago
For decades in the Salinas Valley, the short-handle hoe, known as “El Cortito,” was used for weeding and thinning rows of crops that kept...
