1 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: From Futuro Media. It's Latino Usa. I'm Maria Inojosa. Now 2 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: this is a moment in which a lot of questions 3 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:23,480 Speaker 1: have come up around how our broader food supplied chains 4 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: have been challenged, like dairy farmers dumping unused milk or 5 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:32,279 Speaker 1: meat packing plants closing. People might not want to take 6 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:34,120 Speaker 1: a trip to the grocery store, and when they do, 7 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 1: some shelves might be empty. But one side of the fact 8 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: is that some people are adapting by turning to small 9 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 1: local farms to get boxes of fresh produce. Farms like 10 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: the one that belongs to sibier Nandez's family ubel Phi. 11 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 2: Isn't the ki broccoli broccoli broccoli, It's yeah, because it 12 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 2: all knows them when they're little, I know, and once 13 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:01,080 Speaker 2: they dot wasn't in. 14 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 3: A good size. 15 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, that's what it is. 16 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: Ever since her childhood, this farm has been a family 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: affair for Civia, her siblings and her parents, so. 18 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:14,199 Speaker 4: They do separate work. My mom's more like the little 19 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 4: seats like seat by seat. 20 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: Her family came to the United States from Sadabada roughly 21 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: eighteen years ago. Her father came first and got TPS, 22 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: which is temporary protected status. Ceva and her siblings came later. 23 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 1: They are all under the DACA program. Their dad didn't 24 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: know if they would be able to pursue higher education here, 25 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 1: so he turned to farming, thinking that it would be 26 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 1: a good place for his children to work. 27 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 2: He didn't know if we were going to have the 28 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 2: opportunity to actually be able to make a career here 29 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 2: in the United States. 30 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 1: Today, for Civa, the farm has turned from mature into 31 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: a career path and in these times it's also her 32 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: happy place. Here's Ciba. 33 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 2: Since COVID nineteen happened, I've definitely had a lot more 34 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:11,920 Speaker 2: time in my hands to spend at the farm. In 35 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 2: the mornings, it's very very quiet. You really can hear 36 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 2: much but the sound of nature. It's very peaceful. When 37 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 2: I was little, we would wake up around six my 38 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 2: parents sometimes five in the morning. I did not appreciate 39 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,240 Speaker 2: that early wake. 40 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 4: Up call that I had every Saturday. I actually, when 41 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 4: I was little, my mentality was completely different than what 42 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,680 Speaker 4: it is now. Let me just tell you that. 43 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 2: So, my name is Seba Ernandez. I'm actually twenty six 44 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 2: years old, and we live in Texas. Our family owns 45 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 2: a very small farm in Edinburgh called Nature's Harden, and 46 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 2: we've been in business here in the Rio Grande Valley 47 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 2: for over fifteen years. Actually, we have over one hundred 48 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 2: plants planted right now of squash, we have a lot 49 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 2: of corn planted and melons. The whole front of our 50 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 2: garden is actually for our chickens. Currently we have about 51 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 2: three hundred chickens. Maybe a little bit less. 52 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 3: Due to. 53 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:43,640 Speaker 2: Animals getting in and eating them, but other than that, 54 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 2: we definitely have a lot of our chickens that eat 55 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:50,760 Speaker 2: a lot of our vegetables. There's like a lot of 56 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 2: birds out there, and there's like, I think, like it's 57 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,000 Speaker 2: like a family of birds or something that every single 58 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 2: morning they come and as my dad turns on the pump, 59 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 2: they start taking baths in the water. My family came 60 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 2: here to the United States from El Salvador in Central America. 61 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 4: We grew almost all of our. 62 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 2: Vegetables and fruits at our backyards, so that's kind of 63 00:04:21,839 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 2: like a way that we kind of grew and moving 64 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 2: here to United States, it was a little bit different 65 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,719 Speaker 2: since you don't really find that much of that here. 66 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 4: At least back. 67 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,160 Speaker 2: In two thousand and three, you really didn't find local 68 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:47,280 Speaker 2: farms selling produce or farmer's market. We started attending a 69 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 2: Mennonite church and that this church actually loaned us a 70 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 2: piece of land right next to the church and we 71 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 2: didn't have to pay anything or anything like that, which 72 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,919 Speaker 2: was a great support for us. We didn't really do 73 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 2: a lot of money at that time. I just graduated 74 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: last year with my bachelors in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. That 75 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 2: has actually been such a great help, has been such 76 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,599 Speaker 2: a useful degree. In these past few months that we 77 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 2: had with COVID nineteen, all my entrepreneurship skills have come 78 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 2: in handy, like how can our little family farms survive 79 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,400 Speaker 2: through these difficult times? I had to think a lot 80 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 2: about that. The web has definitely been a great resource 81 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 2: that now has is keeping us afloat as it is. 82 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:55,480 Speaker 2: We go live on Facebook sometimes and those actually I 83 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 2: do them personally. 84 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,280 Speaker 4: They're very unstructured and. 85 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 2: Just you know, whatever I'm gonna eat that day, I 86 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 2: just like turn on the camera and like just cook 87 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 2: it in front of the our audience. Hiwan, welcome back. 88 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,839 Speaker 2: And today we're actually we're doing some baked cauliflower, put 89 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 2: it upside down and cut the florets. 90 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 4: They are quite large. As you could see. They just 91 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 4: come up right off real quick. 92 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 2: It's really fun and it's a great way to interact 93 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 2: with the with our customers now that they're stuck at 94 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 2: home and they see us and they're like, oh my god, 95 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 2: like yes, even though we're still small, we have not disappeared. 96 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 2: We're still providing for our community, which is my dad's 97 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:49,359 Speaker 2: main goal. Going to the farm in the mornings have 98 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:55,880 Speaker 2: definitely helped me stabilize myself more in telling myself that 99 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 2: everything is going to be okay, or sometimes I going 100 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 2: they down on like in the middle of the carrots 101 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 2: or whatever it's growing like. Since we have the little pathways, 102 00:07:06,760 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 2: I just like lay down there. I'm like, okay, I 103 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,240 Speaker 2: need to have a little bit like on one on 104 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,120 Speaker 2: one with myself. 105 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 4: And just not worry about anything. 106 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 2: And it just brings a sense of a sense of 107 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 2: piece that is gonna it's gonna be okay, and that 108 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 2: I'm gonna make it to the next day. 109 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: That was twenty six year old civ Ernandez in Edinburgh, Texas. 110 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: This episode was produced by by Ladia Fernandez and Karen 111 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 1: Coates and edited by Sophia Palissaka. It was produced with 112 00:07:58,040 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: support from IWMF, the International Women's Media Foundation. 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