Made Local Magazine, November/December 2025

Pants freshly stained with grape juice after a long night harvesting a nearby vineyard, a worker arrives to a farm just outside Healdsburg. After an exhausting shift, he should be heading straight for a shaded hammock for some much-deserved rest. Instead, he walks between towering banana plants and a greenhouse strung with drying hibiscus flowers into a field where he resumes working. Here, though, his harvest isn’t destined for a bottle of pinot noir he can’t afford; instead, the tomatoes he’s volunteered to help load up will go to the Healdsburg Food Pantry so that families like his can fill their kitchens with healthy, fresh foods that remind them of home.

It’s for farmworkers like this, says Ezequiel “Zeke” Guzman, that he founded Jardín del Pueblo: The People’s Garden.