{"id":3849,"date":"2014-06-11T16:12:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T16:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=3849"},"modified":"2014-06-11T16:12:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T16:12:45","slug":"fruit-and-news-of-the-week-june-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/fruit-and-news-of-the-week-june-9th\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit and News of the Week: June 9th"},"content":{"rendered":"

THIS WEEKS FRUIT<\/h4>\nGold Dust Peaches<\/strong>\n\nFrog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA<\/em>\n\nIts a well-known peach whose attractiveness and bold sweetness makes it the\u00a0third most widely planted fresh-market peach in California. Flavor Crests at\u00a0Frog Hollow enjoy more time on the branch to fully develop their distinctive\u00a0sweetness.\n\nGolden Sweet Apricots<\/strong>\n\nFrog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA\n\nA smaller apricot that makes up for whatever it lacks in size with its rich flavor.\u00a0Though we may bake pastries featuring other varieties, the Golden Sweet is\u00a0our variety of choice for our best-selling apricot conserve. A California born\u00a0and bred variety, it has a brilliant golden orange skin with a soft blush.\n\nSanta Rose Plums<\/strong>\n\nFrog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA<\/em>\n\n\u00a0<\/em>Red-skinned with a purple bloom, its amber flesh gets flushed with red. It\u2019s\u00a0plump perfection with tender flesh that\u2019s extremely sweet and juicy. A bit of\u00a0tartness in the skin balances out the sweetness.\n\nEarly Blue Blueberries<\/strong>\n<\/strong>\n\nRiverdance Farms, Livingston, CA<\/em>\n\nAs the name implies, the Early Blue is an early variety. They are large and\u00a0sweet. These are great for cooking, if you don\u2019t eat them all first!\n\n \n\n\"photo<\/a>\n\nA NOTE FROM FARMER AL<\/strong>\n\nDear CSA Members,\n\nOur house was built on what was once an apple orchard. When the\u00a0folks that built our house bought this parcel, they pulled out all 10 acres\u00a0of apples but they left a few trees here and there and every time I see\u00a0them I try to imagine what it must have looked like, this piece of land\u00a0planted solidly in apple trees. They are vigorous sturdy little trees; they\u00a0must be on a dwarfing root stock and were probably espaliered.\n\nI drive by these few trees multiple times everyday when I go from my\u00a0house to the packing shed. In Spring I enjoy their light green leaves and\u00a0delicate pink blossoms. They even manage to produce some fruit even\u00a0though they are largely neglected. These last couple of weeks I have noticed the tell tale signs of fire blight on those little trees. A few tips hereand there have the dead, torched like appearance of the deadly bacteria.\n\nEveryday more branches are affected. As I drive through our orchard\u00a0I see that the quince has them too and so do their cousins, the pears.\u00a0Fireblight is devastating this year; we\u2019ve already lost several dozen trees.The disease races through the vascular system of the trees, turning theleaves and wood, black and withered, as though scorched by fire. It will\u00a0kill the tree in a matter of weeks if not surgically removed by pruning.\u00a0Pruners must be very careful with their pruning shears, so as not to\u00a0spread the disease. Each man carries a bucket of chlorine solution and\u00a0the pruning shears must be dis-infected after each cut. It is very tedious\u00a0and heart-breaking work.\n\nTh e good news is that the Warren Pears which are resistant to Fireblight are unaffected. It\u2019s actually unbelievable to witness. Our 2003 pear\u00a0block was planted in rows alternating, Warren, Bosc, Warren, Taylor\u2019s\u00a0Gold, Warren, Bosc, Warren, Taylor\u2019s Gold, etc, etc. Every other row\u00a0is Warren pears and they are unscathed. Not even a single brown leaf.\n\nSo, needless to say, we will be replanting with Warrens. Luckily it\u2019s our\u00a0favorite pear anyway. Originally, I wanted diversity but Mother Nature\u00a0has determined otherwise and with a very heavy hand indeed. So, I\u00a0guess we will have to settle for the best one...the amazing Warren Pear!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THIS WEEKS FRUIT Gold Dust Peaches Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Its a well-known peach whose attractiveness and bold sweetness makes it the\u00a0third most widely planted fresh-market peach in California. Flavor Crests at\u00a0Frog Hollow enjoy more time on the branch to fully develop their distinctive\u00a0sweetness. Golden Sweet Apricots Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A smaller […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3852,"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-3849","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\/2014\/06\/photo-6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-105","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849","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=3849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}