{"id":4377,"date":"2015-04-07T19:22:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T19:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2015-04-07T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T19:22:51","slug":"farm-focus-meet-estaban-martinez-from-jw-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/farm-focus-meet-estaban-martinez-from-jw-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Focus: Meet Estaban Martinez from JW Farms!"},"content":{"rendered":"<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">When I asked Estaban how long he\u2019d been farming, his reply was \u201call my life\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>His father came to the US from Jalisco, Mexico. In Mexico his father worked\u00a0for Riverside Farm which grew produce for import to the United States. When\u00a0his father came to the U.S., he was working in Texas before he made his way to\u00a0California to work for Driscoll\u2019s berry farm. His Dad wasn\u2019t happy working for\u00a0Driscoll\u2019s but learned a lot about berry production. After leaving Driscoll\u2019s, his\u00a0father, Estaban and his brother Gabriel all went on to work for Dale Coke of\u00a0Coke\u2019s farm, where they learned organic production. Estaban spent 5 years with\u00a0Coke Farm before he went onto to work with Happy Boy Farm in Watsonville.\u00a0During this time the family saved enough money to lease a three acre parcel in\u00a0San Miguel on which they planted strawberries.\n\nWhen the Martinez family started their farm, Estaban was already working two\u00a0jobs - Happy Boy Farm during the days and Cruz Company at nights. Estaban\u00a0would leave his job at Cruz Company and then start making sales calls for his\u00a0family\u2019s farm at 4 am. Their business grew and they acquired an additional 12\u00a0acres so they had enough land to rotate their crops.\n\nThe Martinez farm was a family affair. With 10 children, everyone played a role\u00a0from deliveries, to irrigation, sales, harvesting, packing, and weeding. Estaban\u00a0remembers this time very fondly because of the close knit nature of their family\u00a0and the operation.\n\nIn 2005 Estaban\u2019s father decided to retire after working over 60 years in agriculture. In 2007 Estaban decided to forge out on his own and started JW Farms in\u00a0Watsonville on 16 acres. JW Farms has been organic since the get go. He tells\u00a0me that his wife was busy weeding while 7 months pregnant with one of their\u00a05 children and he didn\u2019t want her anywhere near pesticides. His family eats\u00a0everything they grow and he is proud to be able to offer chemical free food to\u00a0his family and his customers.\n\nToday with 100 acres of fruits and vegetables, chickens, goats, rabbits, and 5\u00a0children, Estaban and his wife are super busy. But he says they truly love every\u00a0minute of it. He loves being able to feed his family from the land and is so\u00a0thankful for the strong bond that has been created with his children through\u00a0their family business.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I asked Estaban how long he\u2019d been farming, his reply was \u201call my life\u201d.\u00a0His father came to the US from Jalisco, Mexico. In Mexico his father worked\u00a0for Riverside Farm which grew produce for import to the United States. When\u00a0his father came to the U.S., he was working in Texas before he made his way [&hellip;]<\/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":[123,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-18B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","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=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}