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Blog posts and other snippets relating to our CSA community.

Farm Focus: Season’s Greetings!

Happy New Year! from Frog Hollow Farm

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Farm Focus: Vermicompost Update Part 1

As you may have learned, compost is a big deal at the farm. It is the foundation of our soil fertility program; helps with water retention; and is part of our pest management strategy. By the close of 2015 we will

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Farm Focus: BALT BLAST

A New Expanded Crop Report for Contra Costa County Each year the Contra Costa Agricultural Commissioner publishes the Annual Crop Report. The Crop Report tells the public about the farming and ranching in the County the prior year. This year, Contra Costa Agricultural Commissioner, Chad Godoy, approached the 2014 Crop Report

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Farm Focus: Planting Pollenator Habitat at Frog Hollow

As many of you might know, we take supporting beneficial insects very seriously at Frog Hollow. We’ve been working with UC Berkeley Scientist Gordon Frankie for several years now to bolster native bee populations at Frog Hollow. But this work has until now

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Farm Focus: Delectable Desserts for Thanksgiving from our Farm Kitchen

Holiday Crostada

Everyone at your table will be delighted with each bite Add-On by Friday for Thanskgiving week delivery

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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…