Nanogoat enjoying Pinot noir
From John, September 19th, 2011
Recent News & Rants
The Broken Immigration System
Now that the harvest season is largely over in Oregon, ICE has started to raid the farming communities in the Willamette Valley, arresting literally tens to hundreds at a time. Without immigrant workers helping us, we have no chance of bringing in a harvest next year. So the question becomes “what can we do?”
There’s More... >Harvesting in the Midst of ICE Storms
In the midst of the ICE storm in Portland, we are fermenting our fruit from an exceptional vintage, hoping that what we will best remember from 2025
will not be the carnage wreaked upon our immigrant workers but rather 2025 as a truly magnificent vintage!
The ICE Age
The agricultural sector of our country absolutely relies immigrants to produce the food that we eat and the wine that we drink. At Cameron we rely on the Latino workforce to accomplish many of the tasks in our vineyards. We simply cannot do it all ourselves. From pruning to pulling leaves around the fruit to harvesting in the Fall, they are a vital part of the process. And without them we will not exist.
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