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Farm Focus: Seeing The Cup Half Full

In the face of what could seem like a big setback in our vegetable garden, we are finding promise of a new technique to mitigate pest pressure on our farm. Our glorious fava beans that were a sight  to behold

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Recipe: Oven Roasted Orange Chicken with Fennel

Recipe from foolproofliving.com Ingredients • 1⁄3 cup Pernod • 4 tablespoons olive oil • 3 tablespoons orange juice, freshly squeezed • 3 tablespoon lemon juice, freshly squeezed • 2 tablespoons grainy mustard • 3 tablespoons brown sugar • 2 teaspoons

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Fruit and News of the Week: April 20th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Apricot Converve Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A delicious preview of the apricots soon to come in upcoming weeks. We’d planned to send strawberries with this week’s box, but they were unavailable at the last minute due

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Farm Focus: A Peach Tree Memoir

I started my life at Frog Hollow Farm 28 years ago. I was born out East in the Yosemite Valley, but as a toddler I was shipped away to my new home in Brent- wood. When we arrived at the

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Recipe: Strawberry Frozen Yogurt

Ingredients 2 baskets of strawberries, washed, husked and frozen for three hours 1 cup of full fat plain yogurt (cold) Organic sugar or any other natural sweetener to taste Method Combine all the ingredients in a food processor and blend

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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…