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Fruit and News of the Week: February 9th

THIS WEEKS FRUIT Tarocco Blood Orange 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: Stingling Nettle

Developing a new product for Frog Hollow is often an adventure and definitely a team effort. I never know when inspiration will hit and where it will take me. A typical day might start like this: Wearing his trademark overalls, Farmer Al

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Recipe: Cauliflower Soup with Nettle Pesto

Ingredients: Soup: Adapted from Paul Bertoli 3 tbsp of olive oil, plus more for garnish 1 yellow onion, sliced 2 cloves of garlic 2 tsp of salt 2 heads of medium sized cauliflower 1 cup of white navy beans, precooked

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Fruit and News of the Week: February 2nd

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Tarocco Blood Orange 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

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Farm Focus: Juicing Our Compost

In our ongoing work to use on farm resources to enhance the health of our orchard and the sustainability of our operations we have embarked on a new system for feeding our compost. We are juicing it! In the summer when stone

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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…