{"id":4016,"date":"2014-09-16T00:15:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T00:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2014-09-16T00:15:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T00:15:54","slug":"fruit-and-news-of-the-week-sept-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/fruit-and-news-of-the-week-sept-15th\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit and News of the Week: Sept 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"THIS WEEKS FRUIT\n\nEmerald Beaut Plums<\/strong>\n\nA freestone plum, the Emerald Beaut is a delicate green that turns golden with\u00a0a hint of a blush. It has a firmer texture than the Santa Rosa with a crisp\u00a0almost crunchy mouthfeel. One of our most hardy fruit, the Emerald Beaut\u00a0just gets sweeter and sweeter without losing texture as it ages.\n\nThe Flavor Heart\u00a0Pluots<\/strong>\n\nThe Flavor Heart\u00a0gets its name from its distinctively tapered shape. Its meaty,\u00a0pale yellow flesh is very low in acid and the sweetness and color contrasts\u00a0strikingly with its dark purple almost black skin.\n\nHosui Pears<\/strong>\n\nHosui have flesh, that while still crunchy has a more melting mouthful,\u00a0making the texture combination when eaten out of hand spectacular. Very juicy\u00a0and sweet with a milder pear taste, their round shape and beautiful golden hue\u00a0make them ideal for presentation with a distinctively Autumnal feel.\n\nWarren Pears<\/strong>\n\nThe Warren is to our pears as the Cal Red is to our peaches. This is Frog\u00a0Hollow Farm's signature pear and for good reason. Too difficult to grow for\u00a0most farmers to consider it's never caught on commercially but Farmer Al has\u00a0never shied away from putting the time and effort into a fruit that tastes so\u00a0good. It has a classic European texture, very soft and juicy with a silky\u00a0sweetness that avoids the typical grittiness found in most pears.\n\nHeirloom Apples<\/strong>\n\nWe grow a few varieties of heirloom apples, but not enough of each variety\u00a0to pack everyone the same ones. You will receive some configuration of these\u00a0varieties \u2013 Cox\u2019s Orange Pippin, Ashmead\u2019s Kernel, Belle de Boskoop, and\u00a0Jonathan.\n\nLamb Hass Avocado<\/strong>\n\nAbounding Harvest Mountain Farm, Los Gatos CA<\/em>\n\nLamb-Hass is a cross between the traditional Hass and a Gwen (Dwarf )\u00a0Avocado. A late season avocado with a rich and nutty flavor.\n\n**Varieties subject to change**\n

A NOTE FROM FARMER AL<\/h3>\n\"pear-stub-removal-color\"<\/a>\n

Dear CSA Members,<\/h4>\nBy all accounts, 2014 has been the most devastating year for fire blight disease in\u00a0recent memory. Fire blight is a bacterial disease, which can kill branches and entire\u00a0trees within weeks from the time of original infection. The leaves turn black, giving\u00a0the trees a \u201cscorched\u201d look, thus the term \u201cfire blight.\u201d The infections occur when rain\u00a0and warm 50F-60F temperatures coincide with soft tissue and rapid growth such as\u00a0blossoms and early spring shoot growth.\n\nSo we lose all of the current season\u2019s crop and the entire tree, meaning no crop for\u00a0years to come.\u00a0We tried to stop the disease in a tree once the infection was identified but to no avail.\u00a0It looks like we lost over 300 Bosc trees out of the original 500. In the Taylors Gold\u00a0variety the losses are similar.\n\nIt has been discouraging to walk through the pears throughout the summer to see\u00a0nothing but stumps where once towered the tall graceful branches of these elegant\u00a0cultivars.\u00a0So last week I called Ron, our backhoe guy, to\u00a0come and begin the sad process of stump and root\u00a0removal. After working three full days last week,\u00a0he\u2019s still not done. But the orchard looks so much\u00a0better now with the unsightly stumps gone and only\u00a0fresh day soil instead, even though these long oval\u00a0mounds of earth resemble grave sites, which in a\u00a0sense they are!\n\nSo we\u2019ll replant with renewed hope, and we\u2019ll bank\u00a0on our compost and compost tea program to change\u00a0the microbial ecology of the orchard from the soil\u00a0on up to the tips of each branch and each leaf.\u00a0Come to think of it, since this approach has never\u00a0before been tried, we should invite the UC Scientific\u00a0teams to come and monitor it. Do a Study!\n\nWe\u2019ll\u00a0keep you posted.\n\n\"Signature","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THIS WEEKS FRUIT Emerald Beaut Plums A freestone plum, the Emerald Beaut is a delicate green that turns golden with\u00a0a hint of a blush. It has a firmer texture than the Santa Rosa with a crisp\u00a0almost crunchy mouthfeel. One of our most hardy fruit, the Emerald Beaut\u00a0just gets sweeter and sweeter without losing texture as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4020,"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":[35,1],"tags":[646,364,647,648,95],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter","category-uncategorized","tag-emerald-beaut","tag-fire-blight","tag-flavor-heart-pluot","tag-hosui-pear","tag-warren-pear"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/pear-stub-removal-color.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-12M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","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=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}