The Avocado Murders

by Henry Schulte

Guacamole and the Monarch Butterfly. Source: Getty Images

When I was thirteen, my father put my brother and me to work on our avocado ranch during the summer. Up until then, and now as a teenager, my day consisted of sleeping in, followed by doing nothing. Unless there was surf. But on the ranch, we were up by five and in the fields working side by si…