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Farm Focus: UC Berkeley Urban Bee Lab Part 2

In the past seven years, the Berkeley Urban Bee Lab has helped Frog Hollow seed 20 acres of our farm with over 500 individual plant types. They have successfully grown the population of native bees on our farm from 20

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Recipe: Kale, Avocado, and Grapefruit Salad with Dijon Grapefruit Vinaigrette

Kale, Grapefruit, and Avocado Salad with Grapefruit Dijon Viniagrette

  from Little Broken Ingredients: Salad: 8 cups chopped kale (leafy parts only, no stems) 1 avocado, sliced 1 grapefruit, one half peeled + segmented and other half juiced (see note below) 1/3 cup shaved parmesan cheese 2 Tbsp. toasted

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Recipe: Honey Glazed Salmon with Citrus Avocado Salad

from the Cooking Classy Ingredients: Salmon 4 (6 oz) skinless salmon fillets 8 tsp honey, divided 8 tsp flour, divided 2 Tbsp olive oil Fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper Salsa 1 large hass avocado, peeled, cored and

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Farm Focus: The Berkeley Urban Bee Lab

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Our food system is in trouble.  Farming has become increasingly more difficult. Many factors are causing farming to become increasingly more difficult including, climate change, an increasing need for bee keepers and bee pollinators, and a drastic decrease in the

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Fruit and News of the Week: March 7th

The Frog Hollow Green House

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Hass Avocado En Divina Luz, Temecula, 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

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    via Martha Stewart

     
    Ingredients:
    6 bone-in pork chops (loin or shoulder), cut 3/4 inch thick
    Coarse salt and fres…

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  • Fruit & News of the Week: April 9, 2018

    This Week’s Fruit:
    Minneloa Tangelos
    Twin Girls Farm, Dinuba, CA
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  • 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…

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