When Freddy Juarez was a young boy growing up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, his parents couldn’t afford to pay for day care during his summers off from school. So Juarez and his two older brothers would wake up at 4 a.m. and go with them to their assigned field to help pick onion, lettuce and chili crops.
Every penny Juarez earned, he got to keep. From an early age, toiling in the fields taught him the value of hard work and the rewards he could reap from it.
“My dad always had this saying,” Juarez told The Salt Lake Tribune.