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Fruit of the Week Suncrest Peaches Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A Slow Food Ark heritage variety, the Suncrest has all the old-fashioned taste of days gone by. Its a truly memorable peach whose firm but juicy flesh provides a…
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Fruit & News of the Week: July 7, 2017
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Farm Focus: Pruning Time & Spring Stroll Event
It’s Pruning Time! Winter on the farm is far from uneventful. Trees may be dormant, but our teams are far from it. Preparation and work during winter sets the tone for the success of our summer stone fruit. As mentioned…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: balance, bloom, branches, buds, chain saw, comb, Compost, compost tea, cut, dormant, energy, event, fruit, Honey, honeybee hive, orchard, pollinator, pruning, spring stroll, stone fruit, sunlight, team leader, tree team, winter
Fruit & News: Week of May 30th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Rainier Cherries Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Created in 1952 at Washington State University, Rainiers are a cross between the Bing and Van. Plump, delicious, and with ex- tremely sweet creamy flesh, they can be more fragile…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: brown rot, compost tea, gold dust peaches, golden sweet apricots, june glo nectarines
Fruit and News of the Week: February 29th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Hass Avocado Del Ray Farm, Riverside, 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. Fuerte Avocado…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: apache apricots, blossoms, brown rot fungus, compost tea, Goldensweet blossoms, Microbes, Nectarines, peaches, pineapple express, soil ecology
Fruit and News of the Week: February 15th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Hayward Kiwi Chiechi 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, and they eventually became the preferred cultivar of…
