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Fruit and News: Week of May 14th, 2012

photo of a csa box with mostly apricots, a handful of peaches, and a clamshell of cherries

Working with compost has made me much more aware of fungi and the major role it plays, both in the environment and the ecology of life on this planet. Fungi, along with bacteria and other microbial life, are the foundation of soil, which is of course, the source of most of our food.

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Fruit and News: Week of May 7th, 2012

young fruit next to a quarter for scale with dime sized chunks missing

Earwig invasion! Last Tuesday, the Tree Team leader, Antonio, came to me with handfuls of nectarines and peaches–fruit about the size of a quarter–that they had thinned to show me that the annual earwig invasion had begun.

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Week of March 19th, 2012

Tiny Apricots forming in the orchard at Frog Hollow

In This Week’s Box [box_list] Navel Oranges, Hass Avocados, Olsen Organic Farms, Lindsay, CA Kiwis, Brandt Farms,Reedly, CA Fuji Apples, Rider and Sons, Watsonville, CA Grapefruit, Sundance, Oceanside, CA Nectarine and Plum Conserves, Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA [/box_list] [print_this]

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Week of March 12th, 2012

In This Week’s Box [box_list] Pink Lady Apples, Cuyama, New Cuyama, CA Navel Oranges, Hass Avocados, Olsen Organic Farm, Lindsay, CA Kiwi, Brandt Farms, Reedly, CA Ruby Red Grapefruit, Sundance, Oceanside, CA Golden Nugget Mandarins, Cunningham Organic Farm, Fallbrook, CA

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Week of March 5th, 2012

[box_list] Navel Oranges, Hass Avocado, Olson Family Farms, Lindsay, CA Kiwis, Brandt Farms, Reedly, CA Pink Lady Apples, Cuyama, New Cuyama, CA Grapefruit, Sundance, Oceanside, CA [/box_list] [print_this] From Farmer Al Got Cots? Yes, we Do!! Looks like a full

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