My mother grew up on Minute Maid’s Florida groves. Her parents were migrant workers. From the Carolinas to South Florida, they picked oranges, tomatoes, and cotton. My mother was born in 1942, the last of 17 children. Her family lived in a one-room shack with a dirt floor. Describing the conditions of Florida’s migrant workers, the former United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Joseph A. Califano, wrote in his memoir, Inside: A Public and Private Life (2005): We …
Young Ma 
All the black families that lived here, either knew each other or of each other. We played with everybody. 
Baby T Jizzle and Ma Dukes 
My mother’s family eventually settled in Apopka. 
Apopka 
Apopka 
Apopka 
NYC circa. 1996 
Pops cultivating his product. 
Tools of the trade. 
My Uncle painted this, “Starling 80” 
Still from the CBS documentary “Harvest of Shame (1960)” 
Moms and ya boy 
Kantra and Grandma 
The complete triangle.
