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Dear CSA Members, Every year in the spring we get to go out and survey the orchards for the “set”. This is what tells us if we have a light, average or heavy crop. Having to “thin” the crop is good news. The process of thinning isn’t complicated but must be done in order to […]

Well! We dodged the Bullet! The “Brown Rot Blossom Blight” bullet, that is! It was the classic convergence of rain on the blossoms combined with warm temperatures. The same weather conditions occurred recently in two consecu- tive years, 2010 and 2011, causing total crop failures in our apricots for both of those years. This year […]