“Selling meats out of a truck. I had to walk up and knock on strangers’ doors, and I felt very uncomfortable.”
J.J. Porter
Santa Cruz
Teacher
“Taking care of my son. He’s a handful and very talented, and I home-school him so I have him 24/7.”
Nadia Peterson
Santa Cruz
Homemaker/Student
“Working farmers markets—waking at 3 a.m., setting the farm stand up and working all day, sometimes 12-hour shifts.”
Katie Stubblefield
Santa Cruz
Quality Assurance Regulatory Certification Specialist
“Selling cheese to people. And I’m still doing it.”
Kate Mather
Santa Cruz
Cheese Buyer
“I was 18 working in a poultry plant in the Central Valley, standing on the cold wet cement all day with these dead turkeys. It was miserable.”
