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Recipe: Candied Pear Ghouls

  Ingredients 4 medium ripe pears 4 popsicle Sticks 1(14 ounces) package caramels 1/4 cup water 1 pound white candy coating disks 1 tablespoons and 1 teaspoons shortening, divided 1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips 1/4 cup orange candy coating  

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Fruit and News of the Week: Oct 21st

Fruit This Week: Pink Lady Apples A cross between the Golden Delicious and Lady Williams, the Pink Lady is a crisp and juicy apple with a tart finish. Pink skins and a creamy white colored flesh that resists browning makes,

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Farm Focus: Making Way For New Trees!

  Changes are a foot in the orchard. This past September our Ground Team was busy pulling out 400 O’ Henry peach and Fantasia nectarine trees. The trees we removed weren’t producing very well due to disease. We have ample

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Recipe: Pan Warmed Pears with Honey Ingredients

Ingredients: 3 ripe pears 6 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons honey (the clearer the honey, the more pear flavor will shine through) Preparation Slice the pears in half and remove their cores with a spoon or pairing knife. Cut the pears

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Fruit and News of the Week: October 14th

Fruit and News of the Week: Pomegranate Native to the regions of Persia and the Western Himalayan range, pomegranates have been cultivated for several millennia. When sliced open a beautiful array of jewel like seeds are displayed. The aril is

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  • Recipe: Pork Chops with Apples and Onions

    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…