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Blog posts and other snippets relating to our CSA community.

Farm Focus: An Ode to Apricots – “Moons of the Faithful”

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This week marks a special time for Frog Hollow Farm CSA. Today, we welcome our first apricots of the season in our CSA boxes – Kettleman Apricots! It’s a beautiful time, the beginning of the stone fruit season – the

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Farm Focus: Meet Anna Buss!

We hope you’ve noticed the delicious new recipes and blog posts coming from the farm of late. We thought it was high time we introduced you to their creator! Meet Anna Buss, our new Culinary Coordinator. She joined Frog Hollow

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Farm Focus: Food Waste

There is growing attention on the topic of food waste in sustainability and food security circles.  It’s estimated that 40% of the food grown, distributed, and sold in the United States is wasted. In our own sunny California, it’s estimated

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Farm Focus: Make Your Own Marmalade for your Sweetheart(s)

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What better way to show the loved one(s) in your life that you love them than spending quality time with them doing something fun?  Our Make Your Own Marmalade Gift Set is a unique DIY gift that could double up

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Farm Focus: Heirloom Tomatoes!

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Our Heirloom tomatoes are ready! They’ve been a long time in coming. The tomatoes have been Matt’s project this year. He started about 500 plants from seed in late January. The office space downstairs doubled as a greenhouse as Matt

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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…