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Blog posts and other snippets relating to our CSA community.

Frog Hollow Farm Rainbow Salad

Ingredients: 3 heirloom tomatoes, cut into wedges 2 peaches, cut into thin wedges 2 gypsy peppers, seeded and sliced into thin strips 2 jalapenos, thinly sliced 1/4 cup of Frog Hollow Farm Extra Virgin Olive Oil ½ cup rice wine

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Farm Focus: As Drought Looms Frog Hollow Keeps Farming

As you’ve probably heard, California is experiencing a catastrophic drought. Three years of record low rainfall have left the state’s water reserves at 16% of the average levels. In a state with 81,700 farms, producing half of the country’s fruits

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Farm Focus: 8FIFTEEN

Frog Hollow Farm is unlike any other farm, in that we ship our products nationwide, we sell at the farmers markets, we have a CSA, and also a café in the San Francisco Ferry Building. One of my main focuses this year

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Farm Focus: A Day on the Farm, A Ride on the Golf Cart

Taking a ride in the golf cart from one end of the farm to the other with Farmer Al provides a good snapshot into the myriad things that go on, on any given day, to keep Frog Hollow Farm running.

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Farm Focus: Welcome Back Pluots

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  This week we welcome the first of our pluot varieties to the CSA box ! You might remember this week’s variety, the Dapple Dandy, from summers past as the “dino egg” fruit; thanks of course to their distinctive green

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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…