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by Diane Ackerman Especially in early spring, when the sun offers a thin treacle of warmth, I love to sit outdoors and eat sense-ravishing apricots. Born on sun-drenched trees in Morocco, the apricots have flown the Atlantic like small comets,…
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Farm Focus: Tomato Time!
It is that time of year again, we’re planting tomatoes! To me, getting our tomatoes in the ground officially means summer is around the corner. Our tomatoes were seeded in the greenhouse nearly two months ago. They started their life…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: Compost, cracking, drip lines, greenhouse, heat, irrigation, limestone, planting cells, prune, summer, tomatoes, up-potting, varieties, weed
Farm Focus: The Apricot – Past and Present
May at Frog Hollow Farm marks the beginning of a remarkable, busy, beautiful, and abundant time of year. As many of you know, or tasted last week for the first time of the year, apricots are here! As we venture…
Farm Focus: Blooms and Bees
On a recent sunny day driving through the orchard on the golf cart with farmer Al, we stopped to admire a new planting of annual flowers that were in bloom. Blooms of a purplish blue hue were flooding the 20…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: annual, bees, Berkeley Urban Bee Lab, bloom, cross pollination, dormancy, grant, perennial, pollinators
Farm Focus: Serendipitous Weather
As most of you know we recently completed the planting of a new parcel of peach trees. These trees currently stand about two feet tall, and they are experiencing a rush of spring growth; leafing out in all directions. With…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: heat wave, irrigation, irrigation pipe, peach trees, PG&E, pump, rain, serendipitous weather, trenches
