About

Jose Alcantar is the proprietor of Ventura County-based Alcantar Organics, where they grow a wide variety of vegetables and berries popular in Ventura county farmers markets, Malibu, and Santa Clarita. While Jose founded the farm in 2012, he grew up farming with horses and cattle in Guanajuato, Mexico before coming to the United States at 15. Once in California, Jose worked his way up through the ranks, eventually becoming the foreman of famed Lompoc-based Tutti Frutti Farms. And their logo? A tribute to the ladybugs Alcantar Organics releases in the spring to help control pests; just one of the traditional approaches to organic farming that they use, like rotating crops to allow the soil to rest.

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Carrots, lettuces, tomatoes, strawberries, kales, greens, onions, passion fruit

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