Work in Hand. Getting the story first hand, reporter Judy Jenner boxes cherries under supervision at a migrant labor camp on Cherry Ridge Farm, Greenport, N.Y. She found the work and life of the transient laborers "hard and depressing," While the men pick the cherries out in the orchards, often working a 12-hour day, the woman work in this warehouse, sorting the fruit on a conveyor belt and packing it into boxes and shipping containers.