Fruit and News of the Week: May 26th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT

Robada Apricots

Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA

Our stone fruit season has fully arrived when the Robadas are ready to pick. A large and robust apricot, the Robada has a particularly vibrant blush that makes the fruit seem to glow on the branch, almost like tiny Japanese lanterns lit from within.

Crimson Lady Peaches

Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA

The Crimson Lady is one of the first varieties off the tree. It has a firm texture that is more springy than meltingly juicy and where some palates may find it less desirable for eating out of hand, when dried it is uniquely chewy and delicious.

Earliblue Blueberries

Riverdance Farms, Livingston, CA

A classic northern highbush variety, this is one of the first blueberry varieties to ripen. They are typically large in size and pale in color. Earliblues are mildly flavored and sweet.

Hass Avocados

Sundance Farm, Oceanside, CA

Creamy in texture, nutty in flavor, with a small to medium seed. The Hass skin is easy to peel and darkens from green to purplish-black as it ripens

Valencia Oranges

Sundance Farm, 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) and sweet flesh that makes them a perfect snack.

Ruby Grapefruit

Sundance Farm, Oceanside, CA

The Grapefruit is said to cross between the Jamaican sweet orange and the Indonesian pomelo, first documented in 1750.

A NOTE FROM FARMER AL 

Dear CSA Members,

Happy Memorial Day

Today we honor all those men and women who’ve given their lives so that we might have ours.

We are grateful for the liberty, bounty and opportunity we enjoy. We are grateful for our freedoms……. freedom from fear, freedom of expression, freedom of worship, freedom to live as we wish.

Today as we gather with friends and family we give thanks for the delicious food we have so much of. May we all be mindful of the precious resources needed to grow it and of the people who grew it.

We here at Frog Hollow Farm make a promise to the people of our community and to the Earth itself, to waste nothing.

 

Signature of Farmer Al

 

 

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