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News and Fruit of the Week: August 5th

This Week’s Fruit O’Henry Peaches (Battle Contender) The O’Henry has the flavor, size, and crimson blush that makes for a truly memorable peach. It’s elegantly pointed shape slices to an attractive heart shape for striking presentation. Cal Red Peaches (Battle

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Farm Focus: Battle of the Peaches 2013

  Our annual showdown between two of our most coveted varieties of peaches, the O’Henrys and the Cal Reds, is here. The Battle of the Peaches is a decades long contest between Sarah of the O’Henry camp and Farmer Al

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Recipe: Peach Salsa with Tomatoes, Olives, Herbs and Lime

This makes a delicious side salad to accompany something from the grill or you can try it with cumin spiced black beans and tortilla chips! Ingredients 4 peaches or nectarines or a combination of both 2 medium tomatoes diced, or

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Fruit and News: Week of July 29th

This Week’s Fruit O’Henry Peaches The O’Henry has the flavor, size, and crimson blush that makes for a truly memorable peach. It’s elegantly pointed shape slices to an attractive heart shape for striking presentation. Our O’Henry harvest overlaps briefly–a few

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Farm Focus: Heirloom Tomatoes!

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…