We saw Brooks cherries in the CSA boxes this week – and we all know children love fresh, sweet cherries! Here’s a great photo from one of our members in Berkeley. This Week’s Photo
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Recipe: Peach and Red Onion Relish
Thinly sliced onions and peaches, this relish is excellent over grilled chicken, fish, or pork.
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Farm Focus: Compost and Beneficial Microbes
Compost, sometimes called black gold, is a vital component to building healthy soil. Like soil, compost is a complex and living system. Each pile of compost has its own biology.
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Fruit and News: Week of May 14th, 2012
Working with compost has made me much more aware of fungi and the major role it plays, both in the environment and the ecology of life on this planet. Fungi, along with bacteria and other microbial life, are the foundation of soil, which is of course, the source of most of our food.
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Recipe: Orange and Fennel Salad
The flavors of this easy to make, fresh fennel salad will improve if given about 30 minutes to marinate.
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Farm Focus: Pest Control
In last week’s newsletter we talked about how we leave our weed cuttings in the tree rows to provide organic matter for the soil. Leaving these weed cuttings in the rows also provides nest-building materials for our friends, the earwig eating birds.
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Fruit and News: Week of May 7th, 2012
Earwig invasion! Last Tuesday, the Tree Team leader, Antonio, came to me with handfuls of nectarines and peaches–fruit about the size of a quarter–that they had thinned to show me that the annual earwig invasion had begun.
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Week of March 19th, 2012
In This Week’s Box [box_list] Navel Oranges, Hass Avocados, Olsen Organic Farms, Lindsay, CA Kiwis, Brandt Farms,Reedly, CA Fuji Apples, Rider and Sons, Watsonville, CA Grapefruit, Sundance, Oceanside, CA Nectarine and Plum Conserves, Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA [/box_list] [print_this]…
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Week of March 12th, 2012
In This Week’s Box [box_list] Pink Lady Apples, Cuyama, New Cuyama, CA Navel Oranges, Hass Avocados, Olsen Organic Farm, Lindsay, CA Kiwi, Brandt Farms, Reedly, CA Ruby Red Grapefruit, Sundance, Oceanside, CA Golden Nugget Mandarins, Cunningham Organic Farm, Fallbrook, CA…
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Week of March 5th, 2012
[box_list] Navel Oranges, Hass Avocado, Olson Family Farms, Lindsay, CA Kiwis, Brandt Farms, Reedly, CA Pink Lady Apples, Cuyama, New Cuyama, CA Grapefruit, Sundance, Oceanside, CA [/box_list] [print_this] From Farmer Al Got Cots? Yes, we Do!! Looks like a full…
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Happy Child Photo of the Week: May 14th 2012We saw Brooks cherries in the CSA boxes this week – and we all know children love fresh, sweet cherries! Here’s a great photo from one of our members in Berkele…
- Recipe: Peach and Red Onion Relish
Thinly sliced onions and peaches, this relish is excellent over grilled chicken, fish, or pork.
Farm Focus: Compost and Beneficial MicrobesCompost, sometimes called black gold, is a vital component to building healthy soil. Like soil, compost is a complex and living system. Each pile of compost has…
Fruit and News: Week of May 14th, 2012Working with compost has made me much more aware of fungi and the major role it plays, both in the environment and the ecology of life on this planet. Fungi, al…
Recipe: Orange and Fennel SaladThe flavors of this easy to make, fresh fennel salad will improve if given about 30 minutes to marinate.