Blog Archives

Blog posts and other snippets relating to our CSA community.

Farm Focus: Happy New Year from Frog Hollow Farm!

Happy New Year from Farmer Al, the Tree Team, Una, and Blue

Our citrus orchard is looking beautiful as we head into the the new year! We look forward to many delicious seasons together!

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Farm Focus: A Winter Poem

Love Letters In wintertime trees secretly write green love letters every night — tiny messages curled up tight. Trees write these letters when our world turns cold when hope seems lost when they long to hold memories of autumn glittering

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Farm Focus: 800 Feet of Hedgerow Planted!

Kristin Planting our Hedgerow

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: Introducing Miss Bee Haven!

Kelly Knapp of Miss Bee Haven's Honey

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

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Farm Focus: The Warren Pear Pruning Plan

Frog Hollow Farm exists to offer the best, most delicious, and well grown fruit in the Bay Area. As mentioned last week, this season is a time for us to diversify and expand the products that we offer to our

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Recent Posts

  • 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…