{"id":5257,"date":"2014-12-01T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/?p=5257"},"modified":"2016-04-08T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T11:21:04","slug":"a-note-from-farmer-al-december-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/a-note-from-farmer-al-december-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"A note from farmer Al : December 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving!\r\n\r\nFamily, friends, and good food! What could be better? Each evening this week, at dinner, I ask\u00a0my two daughters what they\u2019re thankful for and their answers are that familiar\u00a0refrain\u2026\u201dfriends\u201d, \u201cMom\u201d, \u201cDad\u201d, the farm, the food, and movies! And don\u2019t forget the\u00a0\u201cpopcorn\u201d!\r\n\r\nI\u2019m very thankful for all of the great people we have working with us here at Frog Hollow Farm.\u00a0First of course, are my two partners Becky (my wife) and Sarah. Also Arjun and Diana, partners\u00a0in the financial realm\u2026..it was their investment that helped us purchase and plant 70 acres back\u00a0in 2001. They\u2019ve become good friends over these last 13 years. Then there is Karen, who\u2019s\u00a0department is inventory control, but she assists me in everything I do from managing my\u00a0calendar, ordering equipment repairs, and general communications. Stephanie keeps the\u00a0books in order and does not miss a single detail. Pearl leads the marketing team, and handles\u00a0technical stuff, like showing me how to use my I-Pad, I-Phone, etc. Pearl - thank you for your\u00a0always positive, upbeat outlook and your warm smile each morning.\r\n\r\nEach morning at dawn, the first person to see me in my office is always Antnio. He\u2019s an early\u00a0riser like me, and is definitely a \u201ccan do\u201d kind of man, who always gets the job done in the best\u00a0way possible. He\u2019s the \u201ctree team\u201d leader, in charge of pruning, thinning, picking, and anything\u00a0at all that needs to be done.\r\n\r\nHumberto is our steady guy on the tractor. You couldn\u2019t ask for a better man to be responsible\u00a0for this critical job, always observant of the slightest operational malfunction. Oh, and he sees\u00a0more of the orchard than any one because he\u2019s always going up and down each row, mowing\u00a0or spraying or applying compost. He sees things that I don\u2019t. He always alerts me to any\u00a0problem that might be developing.\r\n\r\nVirgilio is the ground team leader. Another \u201ccan do\u201d man who can fix almost anything, so he\u2019s\u00a0the \u201cgo to guy\u201d for any kind of repair work.\u00a0My packing shed crew is lead by Abel, with always a ready smile. Francisco and Fredi are his\u00a0right hand \u2013 left hand assistants. Francisco likes numbers! A valuable asset to me\u2026he always\u00a0provides me with accurate reports daily of what I have to sell and where everything is (we have\u00a03 big coolers which are like mazes to anyone but Francisco!).\u00a0Jose manages our kitchen. He could be known as Mr. Clean\u2026.a big macho guy who is fastidious\u00a0and runs a very tight ship in the kitchen.\r\n\r\nWe have three new women on our team this year and they\u2019re all great to work with. They are\u00a0knowledgeable and passionate about food and farming. Anna, Becky\u2019s culinary assistant, is\u00a0creative with food and a great teacher to our staff at the Farm to Table Caf\u00e9 in the Ferry\u00a0Building. Kristin and Marlene are our winter gardeners, growing delicious \u201cgreens\u201d which Anna\u00a0turns into amazing new menu items for the \u00a0caf\u00e9.\r\n\r\nLast but certainly not least I\u2019m thankful for Lael and Molly, our great CSA leaders. They\u2019ve\u00a0developed our CSA to a very high level of community service and education for which we can all\u00a0be very grateful.\r\n\r\nAnd lest I forget, thanks to you all\u2026.our loyal CSA members. I\u2019m grateful to you for sharing our\u00a0values and supporting all of our work.\r\n\r\nWarm Holiday Wishes To All,\r\n\r\n\"Signature","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Thanksgiving! Family, friends, and good food! What could be better? Each evening this week, at dinner, I ask\u00a0my two daughters what they\u2019re thankful for and their answers are that familiar\u00a0refrain\u2026\u201dfriends\u201d, \u201cMom\u201d, \u201cDad\u201d, the farm, the food, and movies! And don\u2019t forget the\u00a0\u201cpopcorn\u201d! I\u2019m very thankful for all of the great people we have working […]<\/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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-from-farmer-al"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-1mN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257","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=5257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5259,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5257\/revisions\/5259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}