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Dear CSA Members, The kitchen has been cranking up production on our scuffins these last couple of weeks. Some of you may have seen the press we’ve received recently; the New York Times and Oprah magazine have both done stories about our hybrid pastry. A cross between a scone and a muffin, it is a […]

A NOTE FROM FARMER AL Dear CSA Members, Demand for our dried fruit has really taken off in just this past year. And we don’t even sell it wholesale! Only to our retail customers like you, our CSA members, at the farmers’ markets and at our shop at the Ferry Building. So we’ve increased our […]

Dried Fruit   Dear CSA Members,  Over the years, our dried fruit operation has expanded by leaps and bounds. Because of the increase in demand we have had to step up our game to produce more dried fruit efficiently, safely and for better quality. Every year it is a new challenge, and new problem to be […]

Dear CSA Members, I know I wrote that last week was the last week for apricots but luckily, there is still at least one more week. This is your last chance to get any apricots in largish quantities for making jam. If you haven’t already I highly recommend you do; even a small batch will work. If not, […]

A NOTE FROM CHEF BECKY As we say good bye to apricots this week, we reflect on what a great season it was! They seem to come all at once. Our crews work frantically to get them picked and packed and sold before they get too ripe. They ripen quickly and need to be hand […]

A NOTE FROM FARMER AL Dear CSA Members, As the 2014 cherry season fizzles out with barely a whimper, I continue to respond to the many disappointed and perplexed customers (mostly at farmer’s markets) who exclaim “What, no Bings!!?” Everyone wants to know why, of course, and the quick answer is… Global Warming. The most […]

There’s buzz around the Farm this week… Dear CSA Members, It’s a happy buzzing environment this week. The bees are buzzing around, the sun is shining, the sky is bright blue and filled with big puffy clouds and word is “it’s about to heat up.” The fruit is going to be HAPPY!!! We’re picking cherries!!! […]

A NOTE FROM FARMER AL Dear CSA Members, Waging War with The Earwig We’ve never seen a year like this. It’ll go down in the annals of Frog Hollow Farm history as the “Year of the Earwig.” They specialize in night-time invasion, crawling up the branches literally in armies and mangling individual fruits with deep […]

April showers bring May flowers. Well, it isn’t something we’re accustomed to, rain at the end of April, but this year? We are happy,happy, happy to have it. This morning I awoke to the tapping of the rain on the patio outside my sliding glass door. The smell of rain is amazing, isn’t it? And somehow, […]

 A NOTE FROM FARMER SARAH Dear CSA Members, It was April 2013 that Farmer Al was admitted into the hospital for a massive infection in his leg. It would be an ongoing, summer into fall, battle to get on top of it. Three stints in the hospital, three surgeries, and a year later… those nasty […]