{"id":1651,"date":"2012-08-08T02:49:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T02:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2012-08-08T02:49:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T02:49:17","slug":"fruit-and-news-week-of-august-6th-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/fruit-and-news-week-of-august-6th-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit and News: Week of August 6th 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

THIS WEEK'S FRUIT<\/h1>\n\"\"<\/a>\n\nO\u2019Henry Peaches<\/strong>\nFarmer Al\u2019s favorite peach to grill, the O\u2019Henry has the flavor, size, and crimson blush that makes for a truly memorable peach. It\u2019s elegantly pointed shape slices to an attractive heart shape for striking presentation.<\/small>\n\nFlavor King Pluots<\/strong>\nThe best pluot variety we grow! A dark-skinned pluot with red flesh, it has an intense rich flavor combined with sweet, spicy tones that are reminiscent of the Santa Rosa. A nice acid bite and firm texture that softens beautifully as the fruit continues to ripen, the Flavor King is amazing out of hand and equally good for baking.<\/small>\n\nSummer Fire Nectarine<\/strong>\nThe Summer Fire has a firm meaty flesh that isn\u2019t as juicy as some of our other varieties but is packed with a red wine intensity that makes it a memorable and desirable nectarine. Often with a deeper reddish hue than the Fantasia, the Summer Fire is a variety that\u2019s worth the extra effort it takes to slice and pit a clingstone: its warm yellow flesh is streaked beautifully with red near the pit.<\/small><\/small>\n

A Note From Farmer Al<\/h1>\nDear CSA Members,\n\nAt the Farmers\u2019 Markets I am often asked why our fruit tastes so much better than others. My answer always begins with \u201cit is the soil and the special climate of Brentwood\u201d which accounts for at least 50% of our quality. In France, wine grape growers call that \u201cterroir\u201d.\n\nTerroir is a subtle thing\u2026it is the essence of place (soil and climate) but specifically, how each individual cultivar or variety interacts with the soil and climate. So human intervention plays a key role; which varieties the grower chooses, how he\/she prunes, irrigates, fertilizes, thins, manages the ground cover, when to pick, etc. ,all these grower driven activities play a key role in how the terroir is expressed in the taste of the fruit. So, I\u2019ll take some credit for taste. But as I drive around the farm, I marvel at the bounty and diversity of agriculture in the farmlands surrounding Frog Hollow Farm. Corn is not just corn, it is Brentwood corn. Beans and bell peppers abound, and are beautiful and delicious. And tomatoes grow amazingly well here. Sure, most of them are cannery tomatoes, but my money is on Brentwood ketchup above all others!\n\nBrentwood apricots and cherries used to be famous for their high quality as fresh fruit, but did you know we produced great almonds and walnuts as well? And let\u2019s not forget apples\u2026who needs Washington\u2026ours are sweeter. \u00a0Just across highway 4 from our farm wine grapes are growing and many award winning wines such as those from Bloomfield Vineyards are produced here. The list goes on and on\u2026Brentwood the \u201cNapa Valley\u201d of fruits, veggies, nuts; a veritable garden of Eden.\n\nI am thankful and I celebrate the essence of place\u2026Brentwood, one of the most unique growing regions in all of California.\n\nOrganically yours,\n\n\"Signature","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT O\u2019Henry Peaches Farmer Al\u2019s favorite peach to grill, the O\u2019Henry has the flavor, size, and crimson blush that makes for a truly memorable peach. It\u2019s elegantly pointed shape slices to an attractive heart shape for striking presentation. Flavor King Pluots The best pluot variety we grow! A dark-skinned pluot with red flesh, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/nectwsupportweb1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-qD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}