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THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Tarocco Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A beautiful orange to deep red flesh is revealed when you slice open a Tarocco. The flesh of the blood orange is firmer and more dense than an orange…
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Fruit & News of the Week: February 13th
Posted in Newsletter, Uncategorized Tagged with: bravocado, Brentwood, Chiechi Farm, cold storage, cuyama farm, dirt road, dormant, Frog Hollow Farm, fuji apple, golf cart, hass avocado, Hayward Kiwi, Lindsay, Live Oak, Navel Orange, new cuyama, nurseries, Olson Organics, peaches, pink lady apple, rain, san diego, sunny, tarocco blood orange, warm dry, water, wet
Farm Focus: Brown Rot
Some of you may remember, but 2010 and 2011 were devastating years for our apricot crop at Frog Hollow Farm. You may have tried to block those years from your memory, but those years were real and scary losses for…
Recipe: Upside-Down Blood Orange Cake
from NY Times Cooking A Perfect Valentine’s Day Treat! Serves 8 Ingredients: 2 sticks plus 3 tablespoons unsalted butter at room temperature 2/3 cup light brown sugar 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 2 medium-sized blood oranges 1 cup fine cornmeal 1/2…
Posted in Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged with: Blood Orange, cake, chocolate, upside down, valentine's day
Fruit & News of the Week: February 6th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Tarocco Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A beautiful orange to deep red flesh is revealed when you slice open a Tarocco. The flesh of the blood orange is firmer and more dense than an orange…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: Abounding Harvest Mountain, Becky's Chocolate Navel Orange Cake, bees, bloom, Brentwood, Chiechi Farm, cuyama farm, Department of Water Resources, Drought, drought-busting, February, flower petals, Frog Hollow Farm, fruit load, Fuji apples, ground work, Hayward Kiwis, Lindsay, Live Oak, Los Gatos, meyer lemons, mildew, Navel Oranges, new cuyama, Olson Organics, orchard, pear bloom, pink lady apples, pollinating, pruning, rain, rot, runoff, Sierra Nevada, snow, snowpack, tarocco blood oranges
Farm Focus: Asian Pear Plantings
We are slowly but surely building up our fall and winter fruit crops with the goal of providing more Frog Hollow fruit for our CSA year round. Last year, we were pleased to plant 5 varieties of mandarins and 2…
