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As fruit harvesting tappers, pruning kicks into full swing. Here at the farm, our field crew always stays busy. Most fruit orchards are pruned mechanically, with what essentially looks like an overhead mower. As all of you know, everything at…
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Farm Focus: A Note from Farmer Kristin
Posted in Blog Tagged with: apricots, canopy, hand-pruning, harvesting, mechanically, Nectarines, open vase, peaches, Plums, pruning, thinning
Fruit & News of the Week: August 22nd
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Summerset Peach Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA The Summerset matures into a very large peach, some weighing in at more than two pounds! Bright yellow with hardly no blush to speak of, the Summerset is a freestone that…
Posted in Newsletter, Uncategorized Tagged with: Apples, August Red, beneficial insects, coddling moth, Emerald Beaut, emerald beauts, Flavor Heart, Flavor King, Grapes, harvesting, japanese black trifele, ketchup, lucid gem, nectarine, olio-nuevo, Olives, peach, plum, Pluot, red brandywine, red seedless, Shinko Pears, summerset, tomatoes, varieties, watermelon beefsteak
Farm Focus: Harvesting
At Frog Hollow Farm, we pride ourselves in our delicious, tree ripened fruit. Farmer Al is very passionate about bringing the tastiest, juiciest, and sweetest fruit to his customers. Because of this, he allows our fruit to ripen on the…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: Brix Scale, Brix's Test, color test, fruit maturity, harvest records, harvesting, juicy, pressure test, sugar content, taste test, tree ripened, weather
Farm Focus: Tomato planting and heirlooms
Our crew was busy last week putting 850 tomato starts into the ground. Farmer Al is always up to something new on the farm, and the addition of tomatoes to our crop has been exciting.
Posted in Articles, Blog Tagged with: crop diversity, food sovereignty, genetics, harvesting, heirloom varieties, planting, seeds, tomatoes
Addendum to Week of May 22nd 2011
Dear South Bay CSA members, The Rich Zee peaches fell far short of the expected harvest…
Posted in Articles, Newsletter Tagged with: box content, brooks cherries, harvesting, rich zee peaches, south bay
