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Farm Focus: Meet Michelle Wing and It’s Yoga Kids!

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  Michelle Wing is a Frog Hollow CSA member, local business owner and mom. Michelle found Frog Hollow CSA just over a year ago. She’d always loved the idea of joining a CSA but worried her family wouldn’t be able to eat quite so

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Fruit and News of the Week: January 20th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Torocco Blood Oranges  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 and its flavor is a

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Fruit and News of the Week: January 13th

FRUIT AND NEWS OF THE WEEK Tarocco Blood Oranges 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 and its flavor is

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Farm Focus: Meet Francisco!

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Francisco Garcia is our super duper Inventory Manager. Francisco’s been with Frog Hollow for seven years. He started in the packing shed loading and unloading boxes on the packing line. He was soon given the responsibility of making pallets of boxes for our wholesale accounts. As

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Fruit and News of the Week: January 6th

THIS WEEKS FRUIT Hayward Kiwi Chieci Farm, Live Oak, CA Originally known as the Chinese gooseberry due to its Chinese origins. Hawyward Wright, a New Zealand nurseryman propagated his plants by grafting. They eventually became the preferred cultivar of growers

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    Pork Chops with Apples and Onions
    via Martha Stewart

     
    Ingredients:
    6 bone-in pork chops (loin or shoulder), cut 3/4 inch thick
    Coarse salt and fres…

  • Farm Focus: The Buzz with Bees

    Spring is synonymous with blooming flowers and where there are blooming flowers there are bees! And while most people think  of European honey bees, we  w…

  • Fruit & News of the Week: April 9, 2018

    This Week’s Fruit:
    Minneloa Tangelos
    Twin Girls Farm, Dinuba, CA
    The Tangelo is a cross between a mandarin and grapefruit. Its skin is easy to peel and its f…

  • Recipe: DIY Orange Soda

    Via Food52

    Ingredients:

    4 oranges
    1 lime
    1 cup granulated sugar
    Lemon lime seltzer water

    Method:

    Zest the oranges and the lime and add all o…

  • Farm Focus: Jim Churchill of Churchill-Brenneis Orchard

    Jim of Churchill-Brenneis Orchard, never imagined himself becoming a farmer, though he grew up walking through friends orchards on weekend trips from LA. His pa…