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Fruit and News of the Week: Sept 28th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Warren Pears Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA This is Frog Hollow Farm’s signature pear and for good reason. It has a great origin story, discovered by Thomas Oscar Warren growing naturally outside a post office in Hattiesburg, MS. Once

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Farm Focus: This Week on The Farm

There is an ever evolving list of projects on the farm. Here’s what is going on this week. We have an exciting new project for our garden endeavors. A greenhouse is in the works! We’ve cleared a couple of rows of trees

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Recipe: Warren Pear Crostini with Pepper Jelly and Blue Cheese

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Ingredients 1 Sweet batard, sliced into 1⁄2” thick pieces 1 lb Warren pear, thinly sliced with mandolin 2 oz pepper Jelly 5oz blue cheese 1 Pomegranate, deseeded 1 shallot, thinly sliced into rings Basil or winter green such as frise

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Fruit and News of the Week: Sept 14th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT 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 the colorful casing that surrounds

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Farm Focus: Topsoil Loss

As we drove to the farm this morning, we were bewildered by the brown foggy haze all around us. We could see barley more than 15 feet in front of us. At first we wondered, could this be smoke residue from the

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    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…

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    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…