At our 2025 LIVE Annual Meeting held on March 12th at the Chehalem Cultural Center, LIVE awarded it's inaugural Leda Garside Award for Social Sustainability to Leda Garside herself. The award was accepted by Ericka Chavarria, the new Clinical Nurse Manager for ¡Salud! services.
Leda Garside, longtime leader of Oregon’s ¡Salud! Services, has been instrumental in advancing vineyard health and social sustainability by delivering vital healthcare, education, and advocacy directly to seasonal vineyard workers and their families throughout the Willamette Valley. Since joining the program in 1997, she has expanded its reach through mobile wellness clinics, preventive screenings, and culturally competent care, ensuring that essential workers receive the support they need.
We would like to honor her legacy with a new award for LIVE members, The Leda Garside Award for Social Sustainability. This will be given annually to one LIVE member showing great efforts towards worker wellbeing and social sustainability.
As farm and winery crews are the foundation of our industry, it is our goal to create real equity within our wine growing community. In addition to practicing environmental sustainability, LIVE members also pay close attention to how the workers on their farms and in their wineries are treated. LIVE requires safety training for workers and to provide them with a clear knowledge of what to do in the case of an accident. LIVE members are also recognized for providing access to healthcare, continuing education, and even for offering wages above what is required by law.
We thank Leda for her decades of compassionate leadership and unwavering commitment to the people who power our vineyards and encourage all LIVE members to continue setting high standards for worker wellbeing.
