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Last Monday morning, I went strolling out to the vegetable field ready to get started with some weeding. About two weeks before, we had transplanted 15 rows of tomato seedlings into the field. I examined the tomato plants; small,…
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Recipe: Shrimp & Apricot Skewars
From Sunset Magazine Ingredients: 2 teaspoons toasted sesame oil 1 teaspoon minced garlic 1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger 1/4 cup apricot jam 1/3 cup fresh orange juice 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 2 tablespoons reduced-sodium soy sauce 12 paper-thin slices…
Farm Focus: Craig Ledbetter – Apricot Breeder
A few weeks ago we gave thanks to our friend, Craig Ledbetter, the Research Geneticist who is responsible for our yummy Apache Apricots. The truth is, however, we have much more to thank him and people like him for. Five…
Posted in Blog, Newsletter Tagged with: apache apricots, Craig Ledbetter, plant breeding, season extension
Recipe: Apricot Upside-Down Cake
Recipe by Lan, Mother of our wonderful member Duyen Kauffman Ingredients: 2 Tbs. almond paste 10 apricots or apriums, halved 3/4 cup unsalted butter 3/4 cup light brown sugar 10 cherries, pitted & halved 1/2 cup plus 2 Tbs. sugar…
Fruit & News of the Week: May 16th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Honey Rich Apriums Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA An Aprium is a cross between an apricot and a plum. Both the Aprium and the Pluot were developed by Floyd Zaiger outside of Modesto, CA using the “low…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: black carpenter bees, Compost, native bees, pollinator plants, red wigglers, spring, vermicompost, vermisoxx, warm, worms
