PERU, New York – At Rulfs Orchard, men travel from Jamaica yearly to live and work in the Adirondack community from April to November. This is part of a long tradition of Jamaican workers who have helped to sustain the orchard since the 1980s, when they began recruiting laborers under the federal government’s H-2A visa
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