Although Leo Garcia is best known in the tree fruit industry for championing education programs for Hispanic workers, he’s also been dedicated to enhancing agricultural programs overall at Wenatchee Valley College in Washington State. He has worked hard to revive the college’s tree fruit production program, for which he is the lead faculty. Launched in 1985, the award-winning program began to decline in the late 1990s—a period when the industry was going through economic difficulties and students did not foresee good career opportunities in that sector. It reached the point where there were only two incoming freshmen one year. “I […]