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Okay folks, this will be our last post about conservation projects on the farm…we’re just so excited about these efforts! Our last conservation project this year was to plant a hedgerow of trees and shrubs, in conjunction with our partnership…
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Farm Focus: 800 Feet of Hedgerow Planted!
Posted in Blog Tagged with: #nrcs, 800 feet, berries, birds, Brandegee's Sage, Bush Anemone, California Bay, California Native Plant Society, California natives, carbon, Catalina Cherry, conservation projects, Cornflower Farms, deciduous, erosion, evergreen, Grey Pine, habitat, hedgerow, manzanita, National Resource Conservation Society, nest, Pollen, shrubs, St. Catherine's Lace, Trees, vigorous, Wild Rose
Recipe: Pan Roasted Chicken with Bacon and Apples
from Zenbelly.com Ingredients: 1 whole chicken, cut up into 8 pieces 1 teaspoon finely ground sea salt 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/2 pound bacon (5 to 6 thick strips) 1 cup sliced shallots (about 3 large) 1 apple, sliced…
Fruit & News of the Week: December 12th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Fuyu Persimmons Chiechi Farm, Live Oak, CA The Fuyu has a crisp texture with a rich honey sweet flavor. They have a beautiful orange to red hue when ripe, often with tiny brown speckles on the skin.…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: Abounding Harvest, berms, biological life, broccoli, calcium, cauliflower, Chiechi Farm, compaction, Compost, cuyama farm, disc, drip irrigation, Drought, fungal, fuyu, garlic, germinated, greenhouse, Hamilton Growers, hand weeded, Hayward Kiwis, hoes, kale, lettuce, micronutrients, no till, olsen organics, onions, Owari Satsuma Mandarins, oyster shell flour, Peppers, permanent beds, persimmons, pest pressures, pomegranates, potassium, rain, rakes, ridger, soil structure, sulphur, sulphur potash, tomatoes, underground ecosystems, vegetable growing, winter vegetables
Farm Focus: Introducing Miss Bee Haven!
We are excited to offer honey from Kelly Knapp’s Miss Bee Haven as an add-on to our CSA. Kelly started beekeeping about 11 years ago. She’d always had an interest in bees and when she found a woman in her local…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: add-on, bee, bee built, bees, bottled, cherry orchard, enzymes, frames, hand harvested, haven, hexagons, hives, Honey, Kelly Knapp, raw, smell, star thistle, texture, thickness, varietal, wildflower, wooden spoon
Recipe: Mandarin Syrup Cake
by Nadia Lim Ingredients: Cake: about 1 lb whole mandarins 2 1/4 cups blanched almond flour 1 cup sugar or honey 5 eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp baking powder Syrup: 1/4 cu sugar juice of 1 mandarin juice…
