Zoria Farms

Zoria Farms is and always has been a family-owned, family-run business. Nicasio Zoria moved from Caccamo, Sicily to San Jose in 1905. His wife Maria and son Giuseppi (Joseph), the oldest of six children, joined him in 1907. In 1920, Nicasio and Maria Zoria bought the property on which Zoria Farms now stands. Joseph Zoria, the second generation of Zoria who took the farms' reins from his father, shows off a box of fruit as Zoria Farms founder Nicasio watches from the background. "My grandfather signed the deed for this land with a cross," says John Zoria, current president of Zoria Farms. "He couldn't read or write but he had a fantastic memory. He knew hours of poetry. He could remember all the tonnages of fruit that he farmed and ( www.zoria.com )