{"id":3073,"date":"2013-07-09T04:37:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T04:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2013-07-09T04:37:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T04:37:35","slug":"3073-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/3073-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit and News: Week of July 8th 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Week's Fruit<\/h1>\n\nSuncrest Peaches<\/strong>\nA Slow Food Ark heritage variety, the Suncrest has all the old-fashioned taste of days gone by. Its a truly memorable peach whose firm but juicy flesh provides a real eat-over-the-sink experience. Gently tapered, the Suncrest has hardly any blush to speak of on its rich yellow skin. A more fragile variety, the Suncrest bruises easily when picked, but as many of our farmers market customers know, a picking bruise means the fruit is extra delicious.\n\nFlavor Top Nectarines<\/strong>\nThe Flavor Top is one of the highest scoring nectarine varieties in regional fruit tastings. It's a beautiful variety, with bold streaks of red and yellow and firm succulent flesh. They hold up extremely well when sliced so are ideally suited for a fragrant midsummer fruit salad and are one of the varieties we especially recommend for grilling.\n\nDapple Dandy Pluots<\/strong>\nPlayfully called the \"dinosaur egg\" pluot, the Dapple Dandy has marbled pink and green skin over delicate white flesh threaded with rose. Kids especially love this pluot for its distinctive coloration and the lack of tartness in the skin.\n\n\nStorage Recommendations<\/strong>\nWe recommend leaving three days worth of the stone fruit on your countertop and store the rest in the fridge to be enjoyed later in the week.\n\n

A Note From Sarah<\/h1>\n\nDear CSA Members,\n\nWow it was HOT!\n\nWe\u2019re hoping you all survived those A typical temperatures. We topped out here in Brentwood at 110 on Tuesday, 7\/2. But the \u201ccooler\u201d days, well, 105 doesn\u2019t feel all THAT much cooler than 110. At least not to me and certainly not to our trees. \n\nFarmer Al and I thought some of you may be interested in the long terms effects of a heat wave like the Bay Area suffered last week, and is likely to be subjected to again this summer. First, due to the extreme temperatures we send the crews home early which obviously impacts our ability to pick the fruit in a timely manner, creating a higher loss percentage than normal. Then, and what impacts us most and for the longest, is the trees go into \u201csurvival\u201d mode. Trees basically shut down in an effort to conserve their energy starting at about 96 degrees. They stop growing, which translates to suspension of sucrose production, and they can drop their leaves or they\u2019ll \u201cburn\u201d. The burning is from the direct heat exposure the sun is creating and the trees shutting down. It\u2019s almost like the reverse of frost bite. When trees don\u2019t send energy to the tips of the leaves, they dehydrate, or burn. This \u201cshut down\u201d or what I like to refer to as the orchard\u2019s \u201csiesta\u201d means less sweet fruit for both the fruit that was close to being ripe when the heat hit AND for the fruit that will ripen later in the summer. This has long term effects for our customers. \n\nHere\u2019s an idea for everyone, during the next heat wave when your thoughts turn to heading to the neighborhood pool or a lake nearby\u2026order some extra Frog Hollow Farm fruit to take with you. Place it in a cooler with ice and a little extra water for transporting to your watery destination. There\u2019s no better way to replenish fluids AND nutrients lost while in the sun on a hot day than biting into a chilled, juicy piece of fruit! It\u2019s good for the body AND soul! \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Week’s Fruit Suncrest Peaches A Slow Food Ark heritage variety, the Suncrest has all the old-fashioned taste of days gone by. Its a truly memorable peach whose firm but juicy flesh provides a real eat-over-the-sink experience. Gently tapered, the Suncrest has hardly any blush to speak of on its rich yellow skin. A more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[35],"tags":[413,414,408,415],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter","tag-dapple-dandy","tag-red-top-nectarine","tag-slow-food-ark-heritage","tag-suncrest-peaches"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-Nz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","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=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}