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Dear CSA Members, This amazing agricultural landscape, known to most as Brentwood, is truly a Garden of Eden. Fruits and vegetables grown here abound in diversity, quantity, and quality unmatched by any other region in California, or in all of America, for that matter. Brentwood farmers could possibly provide the entire population of the bay area with their fruit […]

“Worms have played an important part in the history of the world than most persons would at first suppose” -Charles Darwin Dear CSA Members, Since Darwin’s time a lot of research has been done on worms, especially in recent years. Here at Frog Hollow Farm we are paying a lot of attention to worms and investing a […]

Dear CSA Members, This last week raced by in a blur. We did get all the picking done that I spoke about in my last note. Our picking crew lead by Antonio, was amazing, working 10 hour days and moving from this orchard to that in rapid response to each change of orders from me […]

Dear CSA Members, If you are like me, you wait all year for tomatoes. I start expecting them in May and June and begin asking ‘when will they be ready?’ knowing full well that it will be late July before I’ll get a decent one. They started trickling in about 2 weeks ago and now […]

A NOTE FROM MARLENE Dear CSA Members,  Last Friday, we had a “first” at Frog Hollow Farm. As you may remember, last winter we planted nine acres of malting barley in a partnership with Thirsty Bear Brewery and other barley growers in California. Beyond this official partnership, the experience has also created new relationships between […]

Dear CSA Members, It’s mid July and we are up to our ears in produce. There is an as- sortment of stone fruit varieties ripening off the trees, the tomatoes are in full swing, the cucumbers are popping, and the basil is flourishing. With this glorious bounty of produce we are taking care to capture as […]

Dear CSA Members, We’re having a very strange growing year. After much thought, I’ve realized why. We got off to a great start with the Apache Apricots which we picked in early late April, a record early harvest. The cherries all harvested in May, which was a tad early. The only problem was, there weren’t […]

Dear CSA Members, This week we are picking the last of our Suncrest peaches and we are sorry to see them go. They are big, juicy with a high flesh to pit ratio; their flesh is delicate but there’s a lot of it. They are also beautiful. They are round and fat with a slightly […]

Dear CSA family, The summer solstice marks the true beginning of summer, and we are cer- tainly feeling it here. All sorts of fruits are ripening, and the extreme heat we had early last week caused even more to ripen at once than usual. Both pack- ing sheds are working non-stop, sorting, packing, and loading […]

Dear CSA Members, A BIG thanks to everyone who joined us for our “Summer Pick & Jam” on Sunday. We were thrilled to see so many families from all over the Bay Area enjoying the lovely folk music, picnicking on the lawn, getting crafty with Molly and learning about veggies in the garden with Anna. We were happy to […]