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Blog posts and other snippets relating to our CSA community.

Farm Focus: An Interview with Chez Panisse Pastry Chef Mary Jo Thoresen

I sat down with veteran pastry chef, Mary Jo Thoresen of Chez Panisse, to hear about what moves her in work with food, why she’s called Chez Panisse home for so long and why she’s chosen Frog Hollow Fruit for

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Farm Focus: New Year, Fresh Start

It has been a year of transformation and collaboration for our Farm to Table Café in the Ferry Building. At the foundation of this new concept, we have our two farmers, Marlene and Kristin, who have cultivated a fertile and dynamic vegetable garden from where we source our ingredients and get our inspiration. Becky and I have been coordinating with them

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Farm Focus: Marlene Shares Experience from the National Young Farmer’s Conference

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Earlier this month, I had the pleasure and privilege of attending the National Young Farmers Conference at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in New York. It was a three day whirlwind of learning, networking, and celebrating good food.Stone Barns is an amazing nonprofit farm just

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FARM FOCUS: 18 Reasons Food Lit Book Club

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  Are you a self proclaimed food nerd? If so, you’ll be excited to meet fellow CSA Member Heather Knappe! Heather is a long-time member of our CSA program. She is also the organizer of 18 Reason’s Food Lit Book Club. Meeting every month since 2009, the Food Lit Book club discusses the latest and

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Farm Focus: Dormant Trees Still Working Hard

As autumn has settled in at the farm, the Frog Hollow Peach trees have lost all of their leaves and entered into a state commonly called “dormancy”. How- ever, this term is misleading. Even though there are currently no visible

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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…