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THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Moro Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Moros have a deep red flesh and tart flavor with a rind that tends to blush into hues of red. The Moro is a wonderful orange for juicing or cooking…
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Fruit & News of the Week: March 6th
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: apricots, beauty, bees, blooming, bravocado, Brentwood, cuyama farm, energy, Frog Hollow Farm, fuji apple, grass, Hass Avocados, health, Honey, hope, ladders, life, linden, Lindsay, Moro blood orange, Navel Orange, new cuyama, Olson Organics, pink lady apple, planting, Plums, Pluots, pruning, san diego, skeletal, spring, transformation, tree team
Farm Focus: Pollination Season
We are smack dab in the middle of pollination season! The apricots, plums and peaches are in bloom and the apples and pears will be flowering soon. The process of pollination varies depending on what variety of stone fruit we…
Fruit & News of the Week: February 6th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Tarocco Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A beautiful orange to deep red flesh is revealed when you slice open a Tarocco. The flesh of the blood orange is firmer and more dense than an orange…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: Abounding Harvest Mountain, Becky's Chocolate Navel Orange Cake, bees, bloom, Brentwood, Chiechi Farm, cuyama farm, Department of Water Resources, Drought, drought-busting, February, flower petals, Frog Hollow Farm, fruit load, Fuji apples, ground work, Hayward Kiwis, Lindsay, Live Oak, Los Gatos, meyer lemons, mildew, Navel Oranges, new cuyama, Olson Organics, orchard, pear bloom, pink lady apples, pollinating, pruning, rain, rot, runoff, Sierra Nevada, snow, snowpack, tarocco blood oranges
Farm Focus: Introducing Miss Bee Haven!
We are excited to offer honey from Kelly Knapp’s Miss Bee Haven as an add-on to our CSA. Kelly started beekeeping about 11 years ago. She’d always had an interest in bees and when she found a woman in her local…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: add-on, bee, bee built, bees, bottled, cherry orchard, enzymes, frames, hand harvested, haven, hexagons, hives, Honey, Kelly Knapp, raw, smell, star thistle, texture, thickness, varietal, wildflower, wooden spoon
Farm Focus: Blooms and Bees
On a recent sunny day driving through the orchard on the golf cart with farmer Al, we stopped to admire a new planting of annual flowers that were in bloom. Blooms of a purplish blue hue were flooding the 20…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: annual, bees, Berkeley Urban Bee Lab, bloom, cross pollination, dormancy, grant, perennial, pollinators
