Producer
Brisa Ranch, Pescadero, CA*
City: Pescadero, CA,
Website: https://www.brisaranch.com/
About Us
The three of us who run & work Brisa Ranch - Cristóbal, Veronica, & Cole - started Brisa Ranch as our own farm business in January 2018.
Cristóbal Cruz Hernández has been farming in the Pescadero area for thirty years since immigrating here from Oaxaca. When he first moved here thirty years ago, he worked on a brussels sprout and artichoke farm on the same land that we now lease as Brisa Ranch. Before Brisa, he was a Co-Farm Manger and later Specialist at Pie Ranch.
Verónica Mazariegos-Anastassiou has been involved in agriculture in multiple facets, from being involved in rice farming operations as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa to earning a Masters in Applied Economics and Management focusing on Food & Agriculture from Cornell University. She was an apprentice at Pie Ranch in 2016, and then the Farm Operations & Sales Manager. She is a member of the CA Farmer Justice Collaborative Farmer Governance Committee
After being an apprentice at Pie Ranch in 2015, Cole Mazariegos-Anastassiou served as the farm manager at Green Oaks Creek Farm (a small, diversified, certified-organic farm in Pescadero) from 2016 - 2018. In addition to his experiences growing produce, he also has extensive experience working with animals, something Brisa plans to eventually add to its operations.
“Brisa” can be translated to mean breeze in Spanish. However, many people in our Pescadero community use the word "brisa" with an alternate colloquial meaning: mist. This cooling mist subtly coats all surfaces with a delicate layer of moisture and is common in our area, particularly when the coastal fog settles just above the ground. We like to think of our farm as a mist of stewardship that has settled on these lands - hence the name Brisa Ranch.
Cristóbal Cruz Hernández has been farming in the Pescadero area for thirty years since immigrating here from Oaxaca. When he first moved here thirty years ago, he worked on a brussels sprout and artichoke farm on the same land that we now lease as Brisa Ranch. Before Brisa, he was a Co-Farm Manger and later Specialist at Pie Ranch.
Verónica Mazariegos-Anastassiou has been involved in agriculture in multiple facets, from being involved in rice farming operations as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa to earning a Masters in Applied Economics and Management focusing on Food & Agriculture from Cornell University. She was an apprentice at Pie Ranch in 2016, and then the Farm Operations & Sales Manager. She is a member of the CA Farmer Justice Collaborative Farmer Governance Committee
After being an apprentice at Pie Ranch in 2015, Cole Mazariegos-Anastassiou served as the farm manager at Green Oaks Creek Farm (a small, diversified, certified-organic farm in Pescadero) from 2016 - 2018. In addition to his experiences growing produce, he also has extensive experience working with animals, something Brisa plans to eventually add to its operations.
“Brisa” can be translated to mean breeze in Spanish. However, many people in our Pescadero community use the word "brisa" with an alternate colloquial meaning: mist. This cooling mist subtly coats all surfaces with a delicate layer of moisture and is common in our area, particularly when the coastal fog settles just above the ground. We like to think of our farm as a mist of stewardship that has settled on these lands - hence the name Brisa Ranch.
Practices
Certifications: CCOF and Real Organic Project