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Fruit and News of the Week: Jan 18th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Tarocco Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A beautiful orange to deep red flesh is revealed when you slice open a Tarocco. The flesh of the blood orange is firmer and more dense than an orange

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Farm Focus: Field Trips, Farm Tours & Workshops

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At Frog Hollow Farm, we are increasing our role in environmental education. Frog Hollow Farm will now be offering personalized farm tours, field trips for students, and interactive workshops for people of all ages. For the last year, we have

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Recipe: Fresh Orange Cake with Marmalade Glaze 

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© Rebecca Courchesne Serves 8-10 Makes 1, 9”cake Ingredients Cake 1/2 cup ground oranges lemons, or about 1 medium orange 1 cup sugar 4 oz butter, softened 2 eggs 1 cup buttermilk 1 3/4 cup cake flour ½ teaspoon salt

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Fruit and News of the Week: Jan 11th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Tarocco Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A beautiful orange to deep red flesh is revealed when you slice open a Tarocco. The flesh of the blood orange is firmer and more dense than an orange and its

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Farm Focus: Vermicompost Part 2

Concurrent to developing our vermicompost program to increase our production volume, we’ve conducted field trials to test its efficacy. Last winter we planted 400 of new dapple dandy and flavor king pluot trees behind our packing shed. All the trees were treated with

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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…