{"id":31,"date":"2010-12-21T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T21:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2010-12-21T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T21:47:07","slug":"week-of-december-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/week-of-december-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of December 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In This Week's Box<\/h2>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/HappyChildCSA_box_122010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/HappyChildCSA_box_122010-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"CSA box filled with pears, apples, feijoa, oranges, apples, and a jar of conserve.\" title=\"CSA Box - Week of Dec 20, 2010\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/HappyChildCSA_box_122010-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/HappyChildCSA_box_122010-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\n[box_list]\n<ul>\n\t<li>Kiwi from <a title=\"Brenner Ranch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.placergrown.org\/farmer_bio.php?nav=302A\" target=\"_blank\">Brenner Ranch<\/a> (Newcastle, CA)<\/li>\n\t<li>Warren pear from<a title=\"Frog Hollow Farm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.froghollow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Frog Hollow Farm<\/a> (Brentwood, CA)<\/li>\n\t<li>Valencia Oranges from <a title=\"Stehly Farms\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stehlyfarmsorganics.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stehly Farms Organics<\/a> (Valley Center, CA)<\/li>\n\t<li>Feijoa from Swift Subtropical (Los Osos, CA)<\/li>\n\t<li>Fuji Apples from Bruce Rider &amp; Sons (Watsonville, CA)<\/li>\n\t<li>Clementine mandarins from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuesa.org\/markets\/farmers\/farm_66.php\" target=\"_blank\">Olsen Organics<\/a> (Lindsay, CA)<\/li>\n\t<li>Nectarine Plum Conserve from <a title=\"Frog Hollow Farm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.froghollow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frog Hollow Farm<\/a> (Brentwood, CA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/box_list]\n\n[print_this]<h2>From Farmer Al<\/h2>\n<strong> <\/strong>Greetings from the farm!\n\n\u201cSeasons Greetings\u201d to all of you from all of us here on the farm!\n\nFor us, \u201ctis the season\u201d of cold, wet weather\u2026 Working in muddy soil to prune 25,000 trees, rake the\u00a0prunings, trap gophers, and generally get the trees ready for the coming years crop. Our days begin cold and foggy and often we don\u2019t see the sun for days on end due to the tule fog. But\u2026 we don\u2019t mind one bit! Fog is a good thing around here. It\u2019s what the trees need \u2013 \u201cWinter Chill\u201d translates to hours needed to properly develop their fruit buds for next years blossoms. We\u2019re a little behind on the chilling hours required to set good buds (800 for cherries and 450 for peaches\/apricots\/nectarines). Chilling hours are tracked by hours of 45 degrees and under.\n\nWe have more great winter fruit for you this week\u2026 we hope you enjoy!\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ve also included a jar of one my favorite conserves\u2014Nectarine Plum.\u00a0\u00a0 Please visit us at www.happychildcsa.com for more information on the fruit.\n\nSo, here\u2019s to hoping you all having a wonderful, healthy holiday season \u2013 and keep your fingers crossed for cold weather!\n\nOrganically Yours,\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/assets\/FarmerAlSig.gif\" width=\"250\" alt=\"Signature of Farmer Al\">\n\n<h2>All About Feijoas<\/h2>\nYou might be wondering what those <em>funky<\/em>, nubby, greenish-skinned fruits are.\u00a0 These are Feijoas (pronounced feh-JO-ah), also known as feijodas or pineapple guavas.\n\nNamed for a Brazilian botanist, they are native to the highland regions of southern Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and northern Argentina.\n\nGrowing on tall evergreen shrubs with silvery bark and silver-green leaves, feijoas have also become a common California ornamental landscape tree. When ripe, a juicy slightly granular yellow pulp rings a center of clear, jelly-like seed pulp.\u00a0 The flavor is mild and tangy with hints of pineapple, kiwi, and guava. They're best eaten fresh - just slice them open lengthwise and scoop out the pulp with a spoon (the rind may be bitter).\n\nLet them ripen at room temperature until the fruit gives a little when squeezed.\u00a0 Once ripe, store in the refrigerator.[\/print_this]\n\n<h2>Give Us Your Feedback<\/h2>\nWe depend on your weekly feedback.\u00a0<a title=\"Survey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s\/XJKC5BD\" target=\"_blank\"> Click here to take the survey.<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For us, \u201ctis the season\u201d of cold, wet weather\u2026 Working in muddy soil to prune 25,000 trees, rake the prunings, trap gophers, and generally get the trees ready for the coming years crop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"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":[58,96,97,61,98,99,100,101,90,102,91,103,66,104,105,106,107,94,95],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter","tag-apples","tag-brenner-ranch","tag-bruce-rider-sons","tag-citrus","tag-clementine","tag-conserve","tag-farm-kitchen","tag-feijoa","tag-frog-hollow-farm-pears","tag-mandarins","tag-nifty-facts","tag-olsen-organics","tag-oranges","tag-pruning","tag-stehly-organics","tag-swift-subtropical","tag-unusual-fruit","tag-valencia-oranges","tag-warren-pear"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/HappyChildCSA_box_122010.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}