Sep 9, 2008
Mexican Immigrant’s Son Plants his First Acres of Tomatoes

To Tony Vega, it was a familiar sight: workers bent over rows of tomato plants and a truck following behind them that they filled with the still-green fruit. He had stood in dozens of fields like this, but never one of his own. Standard-Speaker




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