{"id":33988,"date":"2023-11-06T17:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T17:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccof.org\/meet-apolinar-poli-yerena-watsonville-farmer-and-community-member\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T21:09:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T21:09:36","slug":"meet-apolinar-poli-yerena-watsonville-farmer-and-community-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ccof.org\/es\/news\/meet-apolinar-poli-yerena-watsonville-farmer-and-community-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Conozca a Apolinar \"Poli\" Yerena, agricultor y miembro de la comunidad de Watsonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><sup>(Apolinar junto a plantas de jud\u00edas en su granja de Watsonville, California)<\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Los agricultores son una parte esencial de sus comunidades. Apolinar \"Poli\" Yerena, propietario de <a       href=\"https:\/\/www.yerena-farms.com\/about.html#\/\">Granjas Yerena<\/a>Poli es agricultor org\u00e1nico en Watsonville desde 2010. Para Poli, la agricultura es m\u00e1s que un negocio, es una forma de vida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Poli aprendi\u00f3 a cultivar fresas con un agricultor japon\u00e9s para el que trabaj\u00f3 a mediados de sus 20 a\u00f1os. Por aquel entonces, no sab\u00eda que llegar\u00eda a tener su propia empresa agr\u00edcola, dedicada tambi\u00e9n al cultivo de fresas. Sin embargo, su inter\u00e9s por el cultivo de alimentos surgi\u00f3 con facilidad al estar rodeado de agricultura tanto en su estado natal, Jalisco (M\u00e9xico), como en Watsonville (California), la ciudad natal de sus hijos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Conoc\u00ed a Poli en el Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, donde buscaba ponerme en contacto con productores org\u00e1nicos para participar en la encuesta laboral de CCOF. Cada semana, Poli y su mujer viajan de Watsonville a San Francisco para vender sus fresas org\u00e1nicas. Como muchos agricultores familiares y a peque\u00f1a escala, Poli ha tenido problemas para mantener los costes agr\u00edcolas y a menudo se ve obligado a buscar nuevas oportunidades para mantener su explotaci\u00f3n a flote. Ahora, a sus 71 a\u00f1os, sigue cultivando org\u00e1nicamente porque cree en el cultivo de alimentos buenos para su comunidad y buenos para la tierra. Aunque se ha enfrentado a dificultades para mantener su granja a flote, sigue perseverando porque la agricultura es lo que mejor conoce, y dar a su comunidad es lo que m\u00e1s ama.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Poli no s\u00f3lo es agricultor, sino tambi\u00e9n un activo miembro de la comunidad. Todos los a\u00f1os, Poli y su familia hacen donaciones y trabajan como voluntarios en una organizaci\u00f3n llamada <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcfam.com\/\">Ra\u00edces y Cari\u00f1o<\/a>. Esta organizaci\u00f3n atiende a las comunidades de agricultores del vecino valle del P\u00e1jaro y ofrece recursos como servicios de salud mental, grupos de apoyo a las madres y clases de arte para j\u00f3venes. Poli cree que su papel como agricultor va m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de la granja y se extiende a la comunidad de la que forma parte. \u00c9l encarna el papel esencial que desempe\u00f1an los agricultores en sus comunidades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Todav\u00eda estamos buscando encuestar a productores org\u00e1nicos y estamos ofreciendo un estipendio de $25 a los productores org\u00e1nicos que participen. La encuesta en l\u00ednea no deber\u00eda tardar m\u00e1s de 30 minutos en completarse y se puede encontrar en <a       href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/fV3jYLMaK5\">https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/fV3jYLMaK5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00f3ngase en contacto con Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez en <a       href=\"mailto:jgonzalez@ccof.org\">jgonzalez@ccof.org<\/a> si tiene alguna pregunta o duda.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"content-image\"><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Apolinar junto a plantas de jud\u00edas en su granja de Watsonville, California) Los agricultores ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"class_list":["post-33988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-education","language-english","consumer_education_topics-american-farmland-sustainability","consumer_education_topics-consumer-health","consumer_education_topics-environment","consumer_education_topics-why-organic"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meet Apolinar &#x201C;Poli&#x201D; 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