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THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Gold Dust peaches A sweet and fragrant peach that’s ripe enough to drip juice down your chin is one of the joys of summer. The Gold Dust is one of our favorites and the first outstanding peach…
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Fruit and News: Week of June 11th, 2012
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Crimson Lady Peaches Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA The Crimson Lady has a firm texture that is more springy than meltingly juicy. Good for eating out of hand but also make an excellent dried fruit. When dried,…
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Fruit and News: Week of June 4th, 2012
left;”>Here at Frog Hollow Farm we devote huge resources (money and people) to post-harvest handling. Two years ago we invested 2 million
dollars to build our own state of the art packing shed.
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
Farm Focus: Compost and Beneficial Microbes
Compost, sometimes called black gold, is a vital component to building healthy soil. Like soil, compost is a complex and living system. Each pile of compost has its own biology.
