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I'm Jesus Sanchez with Sanchez produce.
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And this is my family's Marigold Field.
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How long have you been growing?
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Semp Paci. We've been doing Semp Paci for the past
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six years, but we've been in the CIA Valley for about
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2425 years. So we did start with the American injury
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We grew up in Oxford.
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so my dad and my mom were selling strawberries out in
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the corner of the street and the truck as years went by
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we started to grow more and we do marigolds
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the last week of the last two weeks of October.
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These are not even blossomed yet.
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And then we have the yellow ones.
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This is a yellow marigold.
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Every single plant actually planted one by one.
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That's what my sister,
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she plants every single marigold one by one.
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Is it true that your sister came up with the idea to
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grow marigolds? You know,
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DACA student and resident,
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she got a permit to go out of this country and go
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visit our grandma. She got to experience day of the dead
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and going to the cemetery and the celebration of life and people
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eating mariachis literally celebrating the their loved ones who have passed
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and she came back and then her and my dad,
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they decided to start growing marigolds.
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the flowers really got known around the community.
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people from the valley started coming and supporting us.
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And we actually have three different type of marigolds.
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And we have the T PLO or the moo de pavo.
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There's plenty of different names.
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It's supposed to illuminate and the bright colors,
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bring your loved ones,
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guide your loved ones to your oda.
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So for us, it means a lot.
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We are thankful to be people's connections to our culture.
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So all the hard work being out here in the summer when
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it's 100 and 10 degrees,
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Growing the marigold fields,
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the saucy flowers gives me a connection to my ancestors,
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to my culture, celebrating part of our,
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our beliefs, our traditions,
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especially traditions. A lot of people ask why are they so
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important in your culture?
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And it's to remember our loved ones who have passed away and
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keep them in our memory.
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