In the News
See how Cultivate Abundance is addressing the ironic food insecurity of a farmworker community through growing, collecting, and sharing nutritious food of cultural preference in stories published and shared in the media.
Sentient
August 12, 2025
Volunteers keep an eye out for ICE while others grow and distribute plants like cactus and jute mallow.
Gulfshore Life
January 1, 2024
Every week, hunger relief nonprofit Cultivate Abundance distributes homegrown, culturally appropriate foods to Immokalee.
Florida Weekly, Naples Edition
January 11, 2024
It may sound ironic that the farmworkers in Immokalee, who ensure that people throughout Collier County and even nationwide have fresh fruits and vegetables to eat, are themselves food insecure.
Latina
November 16, 2021
ReVista
Harvard Review of Latin America
Cultural Heritage and Food Sovereignty​
April 29, 2021
It’s 6 a.m. in Immokalee, Florida, and the roosters all over town are singing in cacophony, echoing from all directions in the dark. Farmworkers gather in small groups in the large parking lot in front of La Fiesta Market. Men, and a few women, wait in silence around old school buses, iconic symbols of agricultural communities.
Green America
Over 2 million farms are scattered across America’s rural lands, providing much of the produce, dairy, and meat products that fill grocery shelves from coast to coast. Yet many of the people working among the fruited plains and amber waves of grain are left out of the harvest bounty; millions of farmworkers across the US experience food insecurity.