Coastal farmworkers feel the squeeze: ‘The money coming in just isn't enough'

Working full-time picking strawberries and watering trees for minimum wage wasn’t enough to put food on his family’s table, so Pescadero farmworker Margarito Gomez said he decided to grow his own. “The word minimum says it all,” said Gomez, a husband and father of four who moved to the area 25 years ago. “It’s the minimum to survive.” When Gomez wraps up his day job every afternoon, he heads over