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This Week’s Fruit: Stella Cherries Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Stella cherries are dark almost to the point of being black and slightly smaller than the big, bold Bing.These are the last variety of cherry for the season. Gold Dust…
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Fruit & News of the Week: June 12th 2017
Posted in Articles, Newsletter Tagged with: apricots, Bay Area CSA, california weather, cherries, community supported agriculture, CSA, Nectarines, orchards, Organic Farming, peaches, rain, stone fruit, stone fruit farming, summer
Fruit & News of the Week: June 5th 2017
Fruit of the Week Stella Cherries Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Stella cherries are dark almost to the point of being black and slightly smaller than the big, bold Bing.These are the last variety of cherry for the season. Crimson…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: Apples, apricots, bay area fruit CSA, California, californica grown, Community, eating local, eating seasonal, farming, Frog Hollow Farm, fruit, fruit csa, happy child csa, healthy eating, Nectarines, organic csa, organic farm, Organic Farming, Organic fruit, peaches, stone fruit, summer, tangeringes, winter
Farm Focus: A Note from Farmer Kristin
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…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: apricots, canopy, hand-pruning, harvesting, mechanically, Nectarines, open vase, peaches, Plums, pruning, thinning
Farm Focus: Mites
It’s the year of the two spotted mites. A mite is a species of spider. The two spot might and the European red mite can cause devastating damage to peaches and nectarines. Luckily, they ignore everything else in our orchard but this…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: dust, hot weather, infestation, irrigation, leaves, microorganisms, mites, Nectarines, peaches, phenolic, red dots, spider, stylet oil, vermicompost tea
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
