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In This Week’s Box [box_list] Navel Oranges, Fuerte Avocados, Olsen Organic Farm, Lindsey, CA Navel Oranges (larger type) Purity Organic, Kerman, CA Meyer Lemons, Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Algerian Clementine’s, Satsuma’s, Abounding Harvest, Los Gatos, CA Kiwis, Chiechi Farms, Gridley, CA Pink Lady Apples, Cuyama, New Cuyama, CA From Farmer Al Dear CSA Members– […]

[box_list] Warren Pears & Pink Lady Apples; Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Clementine Oranges, Blood Oranges; Olson Family Farms, Kingsburg, CA Hayward Kiwi– Chiechi Farms, Gridley, CA [/box_list] From Farmer Al Paradigm Shift Dear CSA Members– 2012 Will (could) be the year FHF makes a major shift in the way we farm and produce our […]

In This Week’s Box [box_list] Warren Pears, Frog Hollow Farm Shinko Pears, Frog Hollow Farm Pink Lady Apples, Frog Hollow Farm Clementine Oranges, Olson Family Farms, Kingsburg [/box_list] From Farmer Al Dear CSA Members, Happy Thanksgiving to ALL! Thanksgiving is my favorite Holiday. Nothing beats it for the simplicity and beauty of the message. …..Friends […]

[box_list] Warren Pears, Frog Hollow Farm Pink Lady Apples, Frog Hollow Farm Shinko Pears, Frog Hollow Farm Franoio Olives, Frog Hollow Farm [/box_list] [print_this] From Farmer Al Greetings CSA Members-Please see the recipe on the back my family uses to cure our olives. [/print_this] ****Would you like to try more recipes with olives? We have […]

In This Week’s Box [box_list] Fantasia Nectarines, Frog Hollow Farm Santa Rosa Plums, Frog Hollow Farm Flavor King Plouts, Frog Hollow Farm [/box_list] [print_this] From Farmer Al Tomatoes and Plouts Greetings Members, In this week’s box, you’ll find Fantasia Nectarines, Santa Rosa Plums, and Flavor King Pluots. If you’re new to the CSA, or new […]

This recipe by Christine Steendahl of themenumom.com is perfect for the one lone kiwi in this week’s box (or if you’ve got one left over from last week like I do).

As the much needed warm weather brings sun to the trees, we enjoyed some avocado ice cream here at the farm.

Cafe manager / chef Mark Benedetto calls his Avocado Toast a cult classic – and one of the most ordered items at our Frog Hollow Farm Market Cafe in the San Francisco Ferry Building. All ingredients are sourced directly from the Ferry Building’s market. We’re excited to share his recipe for our Cafe’s Avocado Toast!

Ellen, a Piedmont site member, sent us a recipe for Glazed Pear and Pecan Cake saying she’d made it twice with our Warren pears and that it was “outrageously good for relatively little effort.” Here’s the apple version.

This simple recipe can be prepared well under an hour. As we continue to move into citrus season, consider trying it out with oranges, tangerines, or other heavy-skinned fragrant citrus. If substituting, based on average sizing, two oranges or three tangerines may be used in the place of the grapefruit.