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Blog posts and other snippets relating to our CSA community.
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Farm Focus: A Note from Farmer Kristin
As fruit harvesting tappers, pruning kicks into full swing. Here at the farm, our field crew always stays busy. Most fruit orchards are pruned mechanically, with what essentially looks like an overhead mower. As all of you know, everything at…
Farm Focus: Mulberry Tree Update
On a golf cart ride through the orchard last week we stopped to see how our mulberry trees are doing. Last January we planted 150 trees. Since our cherry crop has been so light due to warmer winters, we’ve planted…
Farm Focus: Using Drone Technology to Map Bees
Dr. Frankie from UC Berkeley was out on the farm last week checking in on our Native Bee project. He and his team are busy measuring native bee populations on our farm and other farms throughout the state. In order…
Farm Focus: Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable can be defined as the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level. The imperative word in this definition is “maintain”. Sustainable agriculture must incorporate practices that look beyond the needs of today and into the future…
