Juan Quinonez Zepeda
Named after the Mexican barley fields my father worked in and where he first met my mother, Cebadilla Ranch is a multi-cultural, -lingual, and -generational cattle ranch on the bluff of the Mississippi Delta with a mission to conserve traditional Mexican knowledge and foster farm ownership opportunities for Latinx farmworkers in the region. While founded in 2024, my family and I bring over 30 years of working in the northern MS’s beef cattle industry and ranches across the region, and we can’t wait to transform the land, our community, and our lives! Funding from the National Young Farmers Coalition will allow me to pay for a much-needed water well for our ranch. Currently, our ranch is without access to a reliable and accessible water source, so this water well will allow us to provide safe drinking water for our cattle and us as we work the land. Like the water that flowed between my father’s feet, this water well will be the agua that nourishes the next chapter in our lives!