Cesar Chavez: California Trail Mix (Vegan, Gluten-Sensitive) (160g)

We're probably more surprised than anyone that it's taken us four rounds of HHM to finally create a product for Cesar Chavez. But this year truly feels like the right year. Known for his work with the Farm Labor Rights movement and steeped in a family legacy of Catholic Social Teaching, Chavez helped to lead nonviolent campaigns to improve working conditions for migrant farm workers, including major boycotts of the table grape, lettuce, and strawberry industries. The trail mix we've designed in his honor contains grapes (both freeze dried and golden raisins) and freeze dried strawberries (we thought you might scoff at lettuce). We also added toasted walnuts and almonds, major California based crops. To round out the blend we added a wink to Chavez's ancestral home, Mexico, via amaranth candy. Known as alegría (which means joy in Spanish) the candy is made from a popped version of the ancient grain amaranth, a crop once banned from cultivation by the Spanish. We candied it using a syru