Although farming can continue as an essential industry amid shelter-in-place orders, many farmworkers lack critical protections for their own health. As the authors of this op-ed note, more than 1/3 of farmworkers in California are uninsured, and as many as 60% are undocumented. Those workers, they argue, deserve the right to time off for quarantines, access to replacement income programs, child care support, and additional hand-washing stations in the fields. Ending with a strong appeal to values , they write, "The COVID-19 pandemic is teaching us how interconnected we are and how vital farmworkers are to the health of all of us."