{"id":4687,"date":"2016-01-04T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T19:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=4687"},"modified":"2016-04-06T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T13:24:12","slug":"meet-farmer-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/meet-farmer-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Farmer Will"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Photo<\/a>\r\n\r\nIn recent weeks, we have been lucky enough to have a new farmer on the\u00a0farm. A Contra Costa native, Will Medford has farming in his blood. His father\u00a0and grandfather are both farmers as well. He got his start working in the field on\u00a0his Grandfather\u2019s cherry farm in Stockton. Fresh out of high school and working\u00a0hard in the hot sun, he didn\u2019t yet realize that this would be the beginning of his life\u2019s\u00a0work.\r\n\r\nAfter high school, he spent some time in community college taking a wide\u00a0variety of courses to in search of his passions. He even spent some time working at\u00a0a record label and playing bass in a punk band. His path led him back to farming\u00a0when he decided to start a large veggie garden on 2 acres of fallow field on his father\u2019s farm land. What started as an experiment grew into passion project that drew\u00a0in a wide collection of friends to participate. Eventually, he decided to focus his\u00a0efforts on farming and transferred to Cal Poly San Luis Obisbo where he studied\u00a0horticulture and crop science.\r\n\r\nWhile in school, we kept very busy. He worked in SLO\u2019s hydroponic\u00a0greenhouse, taught a class on cropping systems and also worked with Central Coast\u00a0Grown, a nonprofit focused on building local, sustainable and fair food systems in\u00a0San Luis Obispo County.\r\n\r\nAfter graduating, he was thrilled to start working here at Frog Hollow.\u00a0He described it as a dream come true. When I asked him what drew him here to\u00a0Frog Hollow, he spoke about his fascination with organics. Organic farming puts\u00a0the eater front and center in the equation. As obvious as this might seem, it\u2019s fairly\u00a0novel in the world of conventional farming where quantity is king. He also loves the\u00a0challenge of organic farming - there\u2019s always new problems to solve and questions\u00a0to answer. He especially appreciates the culture of experimentation that is so present\u00a0here at Frog Hollow. Since starting, he\u2019s been focused on our budding veggie opera-\r\ntion.\r\n\r\nWe have just over 2.25 acres under cultivation. Right now he\u2019s growing a\u00a0slew of winter veggies including broccoli, cauliflower, arugula, mustard greens, fava\u00a0beans, baby salad greens, carrots, garlic and kale. On the day we talked he was getting ready to plant a ton of garlic. Soon to come will be various herbs and onions.\r\n\r\nThese veggies will primarily end up in our farm kitchen or served in the dishes of\u00a0our Ferry Building Cafe. But, we have high hopes that eventually we\u2019ll be able to\u00a0offer winter veggies as an add on for the CSA.\r\n\r\nWe are so happy to welcome Will and his green thumb to the Frog Hollow family.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In recent weeks, we have been lucky enough to have a new farmer on the\u00a0farm. A Contra Costa native, Will Medford has farming in his blood. His father\u00a0and grandfather are both farmers as well. He got his start working in the field on\u00a0his Grandfather\u2019s cherry farm in Stockton. Fresh out of high school and working\u00a0hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4688,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Photo-on-12-4-15-at-12.45-PM-2.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-1dB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687","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=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}