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Farm Focus: Marmalade

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This week there is much to do in the kitchen. With citrus season fully underway, it’s marmalade time. Chef Becky started making marmalade for Frog Hollow ten years ago. It’s her favorite fruit preserve. The combination of bitter and sweet along with the tangy chewiness of the

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Fruit and News of the Week: Jan 4th

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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Fruit and News of the Week: November 16th

Pear Frangipane Tart

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT  Warren Pears Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA This is Frog Hollow Farm’s signature pear and for good reason. It has a great origin story, discovered by Thomas Oscar Warren growing naturally outside a post office in Hattiesburg, MS. Once

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Farm Focus: Delectable Desserts for Thanksgiving from our Farm Kitchen

Holiday Crostada

Everyone at your table will be delighted with each bite Add-On by Friday for Thanskgiving week delivery

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Farm Focus: A Poem – To Autumn

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To Autumn by William Blake O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And

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