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Recipe: Cabbage and Apple Salad

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Crisp and tangy, this salad is excellent with pork and will make for a wonderful fresh, green, and light accompaniment to Thanksgiving Feasts. Ingredients 1 small cabbage 1/3 cup walnuts 2 tablespoons cider vinegar 1 tablespoon lemon juice salt and

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Fruit and News: Week of October 29th 2012

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THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Shinko Asian Pears Asian pears are also known as “apple pears” as they’re often described as having the texture and shape of the apple but with the smooth sweetness of a pear. Botanically, they’re true pears and

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Special Feature From Jane Lear’s Blog Writing on Food and Travel

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Obsession: The Warren Pear The pear is one of the world’s great dessert fruits. Native to the South Caucasus, North Persia, or the Middle East, it’s been cultivated for more than 4,000 years. Homer called it “the fruit of the

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Fruit and News: Week of October 22

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THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Emerald Beaut Plums A freestone plum, the Emerald Beaut is a delicate green that turns golden with a hint of a blush. It has a firmer texture than the Santa Rosa with a crisp almost crunchy mouthfeel.

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Farm Focus: Owls, Bees, and Bats – Bats

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Bats are on our mind right now and not because Halloween is just around the corner. Mistakenly perceived as pests by many people, insectivorous bats make a significant contribution to insect control at large and in agriculture. According to a

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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…