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THIS WEEK’S FRUIT
Warren Pears
The Warren pear has a classic European texture – very soft and juicy – with a silky sweetness that avoids the typical grittiness found in most varieties.
Fuyu Persimmons
The Fuyu has a crisp texture and delicate sweet flavor. They have a beautiful orange to red hue when ripe. They can be eaten out of hand with skin on or peeled.
Fuji Apples
Cuyama Farm, New Cuyama, CA
Fujis are a cross between Red Delicious and Ralls Janet, an heirloom apple dating back to Thomas Jefferson. Fujis are loved by many for their crisp, sweet, and juicy character.
Pomegranate
Abounding Harvest Mountain Farm, Los Gatos, CA
Native to the regions of Persia and the Western Himalayan range, pomegranates have been cultivated for several millennia. When sliced open a beautiful array of jewel like seeds are displayed. The aril is the colorful casing that surrounds the edible seeds and has a sweet tart flavor. Enjoy the arils alone or use them in salads, desserts, or beverages.
Valencia Oranges
Sundance Organic, Oceanside, CA
Valencia Oranges are known for their very sweet tasting and brightly colored juice. They are one of the most popular varieties used for bottled juices because of this. Their sweet, bright flavor and minimal seed content (1-6 per orange) make them great for out of hand eating too.
A NOTE FROM SARAH
Al and Becky are still on vacation in Italy so I’m writing to you all again about what’s going on here on the farm. No chilling hours last week. Last year at this time we had already accumulated 23 hours. This year year-to-date we only have 9. And oie, the lack of rain! We NEED RAIN. I know you keep hearing that from us – but the rain is critical to not only Frog Hollow Farm as a business but, the entire state of Cali- fornia’s agriculture industry. Start your rain dances and keep them going until we have a bunch of storms lined up and then STILL keep them going until we have the snow in the mountains we need to replenish our ground water supply and refill the reservoirs.
This coming Wednesday we’re launching a new item in our SF Ferry Building Farm to Table Café, a Portabella Mushroom sandwich that will use peppers from our own vegetable garden and be served on Acme bread. Everyone should give it a try and let us know what you think.
We have been doing a lot of revamping of the lunch menu and have even started a special menu for Sunday brunch. There are some really amazing choices. So if you’re looking for a place to eat while in SF, go see what we have to offer. Sorry, still no beer or wine offerings, but we’re working on that too!
This week we’re gearing up in our on-site kitchen for Thanksgiving pies and our Mail Order team is putting together some really great holiday gift packages. Check out the website if you haven’t already and see what’s new this year.
That’s about all that’s going on here. It’s the time of year where things are slowing down and the ground crew is going around picking up branches that broke off trees throughout the summer to grind for mulch which will then be added to our compost piles. The tree crew is walk- ing through assessing what will need to be done once all the leaves have fallen. We have put away the picking totes, weather proofed the packing shed and crossed our fingers for the storms to start coming in.
Good Health,
