{"id":3646,"date":"2014-02-17T19:14:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T19:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2014-02-17T19:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T19:14:46","slug":"fruit-and-news-of-the-week-february-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/fruit-and-news-of-the-week-february-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit and News of the Week: February 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"

THIS WEEKS FRUIT<\/h3>\n\"2014021795074931\"<\/a>\n\nNavel Oranges<\/b>\n\nOlsen Organic Farm, Lindsay, CA<\/i>\n\nCalifornia Navel Oranges are considered to be the best Navels for eating out of hand. They have a thick skin that is easy to peel, are seedless, and have a meaty and sweet flesh that makes them a perfect snack. Navels are also great for juicing and cooking. Store out of sunlight for 2-4 days on the counter or up to two weeks in the fridge.\u00a0<\/i>\n\nRuby Grapefruit<\/b>\n\nPurity Organic, Coachella, CA<\/i>\n\nThe Grapefruit is said to cross between the Jamaican sweet orange and the Indonesian pomelo, first documented in 1750.\u00a0 Red grapefruit was an accidental discovery of a red fruit growing on a pink grapefruit tree.\u00a0 Prized for their beautiful color and sweet flesh. \u00a0Store out of sunlight for 2-4 days on the counter or up to two weeks in the fridge.\u00a0<\/i>\n\nMineola Tangelo<\/b>\n\nSundance Natural, Oceanside, CA\u00a0<\/i>\n\nMinneolas are a cross between a grapefruit and a mandarin.\u00a0 Their peel is a smooth orange-red.\u00a0 The shape slightly resembles a bell with a round body and pronounced neck. Minnoelas have a juicy sweet flavor with a hint of tartness harkening to their grapefruit parentage. Store out of sunlight for 2-4 days on the counter or up to two weeks in the fridge.\u00a0<\/i>\n\nHayward Kiwi<\/b>\n\nChieci Farm, Live Oak, CA<\/i>\n\nOriginally known as the Chinese gooseberry due to its Chinese origins.\u00a0Hawyward Wright, a New Zealand nurseryman propagated his plants by grafting and they eventually became the preferred cultivar of growers due to their sweet flavor and thin skin.\u00a0 The kiwis are ripe and ready to eat upon arrival.\u00a0 Consume first or store in the fridge. \u00a0<\/i>\n\nPink Lady Apples<\/b>\n\nCayuma Orchards, New Cayuma, CA<\/i>\n\nA cross between the Golden Delicious and Lady Williams, the Pink Lady is a crisp and juicy apple with a tart finish. Pink skins and a creamy white colored flesh that resists browning makes, this an excellent apple for salads and slicing. Store on your counter out of direct light for 4-5 days. Refrigerate after to maintain crispness.<\/i>\n\nHass Avocado<\/b>\n\nEarthbound Farm, Carmel, CA<\/i>\n\nCreamy in texture, nutty in flavor, with a small to medium seed. The Hass skin is easy to peel and darkens from green to purplish-black as it ripens.\n

A NOTE FROM FARMER AL<\/h3>\nDear CSA Members,\n\nThe rain has returned after two and one half dry winter months!\u00a0 We are all so happy and so thankful!\u00a0 Even my crew, who now must be \u201claid off\u201d for several days due to muddy conditions, are expressing relief and joy.\u00a0 Dusty December and the surreal sunny days of January just felt so strange and unnatural.\u00a0 It made us all feel uneasy and \u201coff-balance\u201d.\n\nNow, we get to our normal worries, such as \u201cWill this rain cause brown rot blossom blight on our apricots\u201d?\u00a0 They are just now beginning to bloom.\u00a0 This is the most vulnerable stage of growth for apricots, and massive crop failure could result, just as it did in 2010 and 2011.\u00a0 I go out to the trees each day now to check for the disease - so far so good.\n\nTomorrow we will spray compost tea on all 26 acres of our \u201ccots,\u201d plus about 4 acres of Dapple Dandy Pluots which are also beginning to bloom. This tea is very heavily populated with high concentrations of fungus, bacteria, protozoa, nematodes and other microbes which we hope will either consume or out-compete the pathogenic monilinia fructicola which consumes the blossoms overnight if left unchecked!\n\nWe are also counting on the compost to help control this devastating pathogen.\u00a0 The compost changes the ecology of the soil, where the feared pathogens also reside (i.e., they are present both on the branches of the trees and in the soil).\u00a0 So to summarize, we\u2019re using compost on the ground and compost tea sprayed on the branches, to overwhelm the pathogens with a healthy microbial environment.\n\nWeather conditions this year are lining up to be a \u201cperfect storm\u201d for a bad brown rot year, this will provide the \u201cacid\u201d test for the \u201ccompost theory\u201d.\n\n \n\n\"Signature","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THIS WEEKS FRUIT Navel Oranges Olsen Organic Farm, Lindsay, CA California Navel Oranges are considered to be the best Navels for eating out of hand. They have a thick skin that is easy to peel, are seedless, and have a meaty and sweet flesh that makes them a perfect snack. Navels are also great for […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[311,516,234,254,63,64,83,65,210],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-compost-tea","tag-drought","tag-farmer-al","tag-frog-hollow-farm","tag-grapefruit","tag-hass-avocados","tag-kiwi","tag-navel-oranges","tag-rain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-WO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","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=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}