{"id":3096,"date":"2013-07-23T02:53:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T02:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2013-07-23T02:53:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T02:53:37","slug":"farm-focus-jose-sandoval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/farm-focus-jose-sandoval\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Focus: Jose Sandoval"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n\nMeet Jose Sandoval.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve enjoyed any of the goodies that come out of our Farm Kitchen, please thank Jose.\u00a0 He\u2019s our Farm Kitchen Manager and well loved on the farm.\n\nJose grew up in Michoacan, Mexico and came to the U.S. 26 years ago.\u00a0 He\u2019s been with Frog Hollow for 24 years!\u00a0 His first job at the farm was working with Farmer Al in the Orchard harvesting fruit.\u00a0 Jose worked out in the orchard for about four years. He demonstrated attention to detail, a quick head for numbers, and an excellent work ethic.\u00a0 Farmer Al took note and moved him into the Packing Shed to become the Supervisor.\n\nJose spent 6 years as the Packing Shed Supervisor.\u00a0 During this time, Becky was launching our Farm Kitchen products and needed help.\u00a0 Jose\u2019s time was divided between the packing shed and overseeing the staff for processing the fruit for dried fruit and conserves.\u00a0 As the Farm Kitchen products met with increasing success and demand, Jose moved to the Farm Kitchen full time as Supervisor.\n\nThe Farm Kitchen is busy year-round making products, but summertime is the busiest.\u00a0 Jose oversees a total staff of 34 people during peek harvest season.\u00a0 The outside summer kitchen staff consists 18 people to process the fresh fruit for drying and 8 people to cut the fresh fruit for freezing.\u00a0 The inside kitchen staff remains pretty constant year round at 8 people.\u00a0 The inside kitchen crew makes our conserves, pastries, granola and does all the packing and labeling of the kitchen products.\u00a0 All of our Farm Kitchen products are made by hand in small batches.\u00a0 In addition to overseeing the staff, Jose is responsible for order fulfillment for all Farm Kitchen products. Orders come from several different market channels including CSA Add-Ons, mail order, Farmers Markets, our Ferry Building Caf\u00e9, and even some hotels.\u00a0 Every Monday he does inventory, reviews orders and sets a work plan for fulfillment.\n\nJose is definitely a hands-on team player.\u00a0 He loves making and eating our conserves! You will often find him stirring a batch of conserves because it\u2019s his favorite thing to do in the Kitchen. \u00a0 He tastes every batch of conserves before it is placed into jars to ensure their deliciousness. His favorite conserve is the new Cherry Strawberry followed closely by the Apricot.\u00a0 His favorite peach is the Cal Red and favorite nectarine for fresh eating is the Fantasia, but he\u2019s freezing as many as the Flavor Top nectarines as possible for conserves due to their beautiful colored flesh and sweet flavor.\n\nJose is an all around wonderful guy. He\u2019s always joking around and very funny.\u00a0 His cool guy appearance with shaved head, sunglasses, and motorcycle adds character and dimension to our farm crew.\u00a0 Best of all you can depend on Jose for everything, whether it is lending a very competent hand for events or an ear on a hard day.\n\nNext time you order an Add-On and delight in its deliciousness, thank our own Jose Sandoval.\n\n \n\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet Jose Sandoval.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve enjoyed any of the goodies that come out of our Farm Kitchen, please thank Jose.\u00a0 He\u2019s our Farm Kitchen Manager and well loved on the farm. Jose grew up in Michoacan, Mexico and came to the U.S. 26 years ago.\u00a0 He\u2019s been with Frog Hollow for 24 years!\u00a0 His first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[123,35,1],"tags":[198,354,100,422],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-newsletter","category-uncategorized","tag-add-ons","tag-conserves","tag-farm-kitchen","tag-jose"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-NW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}