In This Week’s Box
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- Slicer tomatoes, Dinuba, CA
- Fuerte Avocados, Azusa, CA
- Persian Limes, Oceanside, CA
- Fuji apples, Cuyama, CA
- Pink Lady apples, Cuyama, CA
- Navel Oranges, Lindsay, CA
- Tarocco Blood oranges, Oceanside, CA
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From Farmer Al
Report from the orchard: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Dear CSA Members,
The Bad: Apricots have been wiped out by March 5th’s rain. Refer to my
newsletter of March 7th for the why. My worst fears have come true. Our apricot blossoms went from snowy white and beautiful to black and ugly. 98% of the fruit has been destroyed. I’m hopeful enough Blenheims have survived to make an appearance in the boxes to come.
The Ugly: The apricot trees are studded with thousands of dead, blackened fruitwood and branches which we must remove by pruning. It’s costly but necessary, or we’ll have even higher risk of
brown rot blossom blight next year!
The Good: Always finish with the good… Most other crops look okay and some even look significantly better than last year. One of these better crops are the pears which look as if they might produce the largest crop of all three varieties (Warren, Bosc, Taylor’s Gold, and Seckel) that we’ve ever had. I hope your children like them as much as mine do. We’ll have plenty to help us stay afloat into this year’s holiday season and beyond.
With Spring/Summer sign-ups now available—Please! Please!—invite a friend to join. We need more solid, dedicated members to make our CSA financially sustainable. If you invite a friend, ask them to let us know who referred them, so we know how they found us.
Regards to all,
From Karen and Kimi
Hey folks, it’s guacamole time! In addition to the usual fruits, we found a couple little extras to liven things up. Mix up those avocados, limes, and the slicer tomatoes for a tasty little Vitamin E laden guacamole sanck.
We’ve got some more little treats lined up in the weeks to come, including some special sneak peeks of new add-ons and another taste or two from the kitchen. Our new CSA structure is allowing us lots of flexibility to partner up with some great local producers, so if you’ve been longing for some pastured farm-fresh eggs, or some sustainable organic breads, you won’t have to wait much longer.
-K&K
p.s. If you call outside of office hours or we’re on the other line the voicemail message when you reach Karen’s extension says accounts receivable, but is in fact CSA. We’re working on getting it changed, but never fear, we’re a
very small office, so no matter which option you hit, your message will find its way to the right person!
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