{"id":2968,"date":"2013-06-11T04:42:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T04:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2013-06-11T04:42:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T04:42:52","slug":"fruit-and-news-week-of-june-10th-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/fruit-and-news-week-of-june-10th-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit and News: Week of June 10th 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"Blenheim Apricots<\/strong>\nFrog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA<\/em>\nA Slow Food Arc of Taste apricot that has been growing in the Santa Clara Valley since the 1900's. Small in size like our Golden Sweet the Blenheims are prized for their sweet tart flavor and aromatic qualities. A great apricot for preserving, drying, and eating out of hand. \n\nGold Dust Peaches<\/strong>\nFrog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA<\/em>\nThe Gold Dust is one of our favorites and the first outstanding peach of the season for eating out of hand. A delicately fleshed heirloom variety, it is low in acid and smaller than most of our peaches. Its juicy, melting texture and \nsweetness can hardly be beat.\n\nJade Nectarines<\/strong>\nFrog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA<\/em>\nWhite-fleshed nectarines, the Jade's subtle sweetness and low acidity makes them a great contrast to our early-season yellow peaches.\n\nAlbion Strawberries<\/strong>\nYerena Farm, Watsonville, CA<\/em>\nThe Albion is a newer variety strawberry developed at UC Davis. It is ever bearing and usually produces fruit June - October in the Bay Area. The sweet flavor and firm flesh makes the Albion an excellent dessert or preserving berry. Strawberry jam or pie anyone?\n\nEarly Blue Blueberries<\/strong>\nRiverdance Farms, Livingston, CA<\/em>\nAs the name implies, the Early Blue is an early variety. They are large and sweet. These are great for cooking, if you don't eat them all first!\n\n

A Note from Sarah<\/h1>\nThe Magic of Frog Hollow\n\nWhat is it? How does it manifest itself? It shows up all the time in the funniest ways. Here\u2019s one of my memories\u2026\n\nIt\u2019s late July. About mid afternoon, hawks are gliding on the heat waves and Al and I are out checking the picking and seeing what\u2019s going on with the crews. Of course, we\u2019re driving a golf cart with Farmer Al at the helm. This is our only chance during the busy day to have our \u201cstate of the farm\u201d meeting. So Farmer Al stops the golf cart down by the south end of the property, looking North at the grapes, where we can see two of our crews, on flatbed electric carts. As we sit going over who\u2019s done what and who\u2019s going to do what next, we stop talking and sit watching in silence at the scene unfolding before us. One crew is driving backwards, apparently the gear for \u201cfront\u201d isn\u2019t functioning, but that doesn\u2019t stop them from continuing their work. The other cart is propelling forward at an alarming speed and heading directly for an end-post in the vineyard. Suddenly the four men riding on the back hop off hanging on to the cart dragging it to a stop just before it hits the post. No brakes. As I sit writing \u201ccall mechanic\u201d in my notebook, I smell something burning and notice smoke to my right\u2026 the grass under the golf cart Farmer Al and I are sitting on is on fire! Al chuckles and simply moves forward 10 feet saying calmly, \u201cRemind me to take it out of drive when we stop, or we\u2019ll do that again.\u201d I, meanwhile, have hopped off and am busily stamping out the embers.\n\nOn this day, in spite of all the \u201cwrongs\u201d we managed to do all our normal deliveries that evening. No one was maimed or even wounded in the process! It all turned out \u201cright\u201d in spite of us. The next morning when Farmer Al and I were chatting about the previous day\u2019s activities, I looked at him and said, \u201cI\u2019d say yesterday was a Frog Hollow Farm Day!\u201d There\u2019s no doubt in my mind we had a little magic to help us along the way. In fact, it was days like this one that led Farmer Al to coin the phrase, \u201cthe magic of Frog Hollow\u201d. I know it\u2019s actually through his leadership and \u201ccan do\u201d attitude no matter what the day brings, we\u2019ll get the job done so you can enjoy the \u201cmagic of Frog Hollow Farm\u201d in your own homes, But it\u2019s fun to think there\u2019s also a little magic at play. It\u2019s also good to know that this was more than 20 years ago and through the years we\u2019ve been able to maintain our farm vehicles better! Thank you Karen Johnson!!!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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