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FARM FOCUS: 18 Reasons Food Lit Book Club

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  Are you a self proclaimed food nerd? If so, you’ll be excited to meet fellow CSA Member Heather Knappe! Heather is a long-time member of our CSA program. She is also the organizer of 18 Reason’s Food Lit Book Club. Meeting every month since 2009, the Food Lit Book club discusses the latest and

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Recipe: Roasted Apples with Vanilla Ice Cream & Walnuts Cranberries

Ingredients: 4 apples 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 cup chopped walnuts 1/4 cup dried cranberries extra virgin olive oil Vanilla ice cream Preparation: Preheat your oven to 350°. Rinse and dry the apples. Using an apple corer, cut out the cores. Place apples in a

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Fruit and News of the Week: December 15th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Pink Lady Apple Cuyama Farm, New Cuyama, CA A cross between the Golden Delicious and Lady Williams, the Pink Lady is a crisp and juicy apple with a tart finish. Pink skins and a creamy white colored flesh that

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Farm Focus: Dormant Trees Still Working Hard

As autumn has settled in at the farm, the Frog Hollow Peach trees have lost all of their leaves and entered into a state commonly called “dormancy”. How- ever, this term is misleading. Even though there are currently no visible

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Citrus Salad with Greek Yogurt Dressing

Thanks to our friend Chef Mario Hernandez from the Order of the Fat Tongue for this delightful recipe. Ingredients: Salad 1 Satsuma mandarin orange 1 navel orange Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper to taste 1⁄2 of small onion, sliced

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  • 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…