California’s Small Farms: Spring Street Farm Project
Jesse Frutos is a third-generation farmer in California, tilling the same land in the town of Cypress that his grandfather did. He was raised spending summer “vacations” working on the properties owned by members of his family, where he learned all the basics of seasonal farming.
Frutos worked in retail management for some years before returning to the fields, an experience that reminded him how rewarding working outside can be. His business, Lincoln Spring Farms, delivers CSA boxes throughout Orange County, vends at a few farmers’ markets, and sells strawberries wholesale.
In a fairly urban area of Long Beach, the Salvation Army and Long Beach Community Action Partnership were separated by an empty, 1.5 acre patch of dirt. After much discussion, it was decided that the plot should be a small farm, one for growing produce to sell, certainly, but also one that operated as a community center and a place of learning.
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