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I first wrote about this in an essay entitled, “The browning of the American farm,” an article published in High Country News and reprinted in Colorado Central Magazine in 2000. In that article I noted how the family farm was in declined among white Americans; however, the number of Latina/o owned and operated farms was increasing at a dramatic pace and in Washington State increased by more than 300 percent during that decade. Many of these farmers are Mexicans and a good portion is people from indigenous backgrounds.