Grower Sam DiMaria, left, gets along well with his Mexican workers like Pedro Villaneuva. Without foreign workers to help him thin, prune, and harvest his 82 acres of apple and pear crops, Sam DiMaria almost certainly would be out of business, or at least his operation would have to be scaled back drastically. “The Seasonal Agriculture Workers Program saved my bacon, it saved my farm,” said DiMaria, who has been growing fruit in the Okanagan for most of his life. The national program, which has been in existence in Canada since 1974, was introduced to British Columbia in 2004 and […]