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La Posada
Home away from home—housing seasonal vineyard workers
"Here we will live like a family. Here we will live like people, with dignity."
La Posada, a lodging for temporary vineyard workers in the Sonoma Valley. It's a novel concept in the years-long struggle to provide decent housing for some of the thousands of temporary, mostly Latino migrant workers who flood the North Coast for the annual harvest.
Fittingly, La Posada is literally a community on wheels—nine custom-built mobile dormitory units and two bathhouses designed to house up to 36 workers in Spartan but secure comfort in the off-hours of their grueling days in the vineyards.
La Posada has been in the works for years, and has required the vision and persistence of dedicated local officials and volunteers. It is the first officially sanctioned seasonal labor camp in the Sonoma Valley, spearheaded by Vineyard Workers Services (VWS) a 12-year-old nonprofit dedicated to providing housing for vineyard workers. This is the first time VWS has actually built housing and, for this harvest at least, the housing will be in use only for the approximate two months of harvest.