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Farm Focus: Carbon Sequestration
Posted in Blog Tagged with: Agriculture, atmosphere, CalCAN, California, carbon, carbon trading, chemicals, climate, Compost, cover crop, emissions, food system, gas, global warming, greenhouse, healthy, healthy soils initiative, legislators, Microbes, regulators, senators, sequestering, soil, tax
Fruit & News of the Week: March 27th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Sanguinelli Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Sanguinelli is the latest variety of our blood oranges. The flesh is sweet and ranges in color from orange with dark red streaking to a dark red maroon. Sanguinellis…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: apple, apricots, Avocado, bees, Blood Orange, bravocado, Brentwood, cherries, Chiechi Farm, fall off, flavor kings, Frog Hollow Farm, fruit, fruit set report, fuji, hass, Hayward, Kiwi, linden, Lindsay, Live Oak, mildew spores, Navel, Olson Organics, orange, peaches, pears, Pink Lady, plum, Pluots, pollinate, pruning, rain, ruby grapefruit, san diego, sanguinelli, smit farm, Soil Fertility, soil moisture, sundance, vigor, warrens, wet weather
Recipe: Citrus Curd
from the SF Chronicle Makes 2 cups Ingredients: 4 large eggs 1 cup sugar Pinch of kosher salt 1/2 cup citrus juice 1 to 2 teaspoons of lemon juice (optional) 1/2 cup (4 ounces) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces…
Fruit & News of the Week: March 20th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Sanguinelli Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Sanguinelli is the latest variety of our blood oranges. The flesh is sweet and ranges in color from orange with dark red streaking to a dark red maroon. Sanguinellis…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: apple, bees, Blood Orange, bloom, bravocado, Brentwood, Food, Frog Hollow Farm, fuji, grass, hass avocado, health, Honey, linden, Lindsay, Navel Orange, Olson Organics, peaches, petals, Pink Lady, planting, pruning, rain, ruby grapefruit, san diego, sanguinelli, smit farm, spring, sundance
Farm Focus: New Tree Planting
Sun-filled, warm days have graced Frog Hollow Farm this past week. We welcome the short sleeve weather, understanding the impact it has on the fruit to come this summer (and thankful for a break from all the rain!). As our…
