{"id":4105,"date":"2014-10-28T00:15:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=4105"},"modified":"2014-10-28T00:15:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:15:36","slug":"fruit-and-news-of-the-week-oct-27th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/fruit-and-news-of-the-week-oct-27th\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit and News of the Week: Oct 27th"},"content":{"rendered":"

THIS WEEK'S FRUIT<\/h3>\nSeckel Pears<\/strong>\nA varietal that pre-dates the Bosc, the Seckel is much smaller in size\nand finds its origins near Philadelphia in the early 1800s. Also known as\nsugar pears, the Seckel is green with a dark-red blush or in some cases\nnearly all red. It\u2019s extremely sweet with almost no acid and its fine flesh is very juicy.\n\nWarren Pears<\/strong>\nThe Warren pear has a classic European texture - very soft and juicy -\nwith a silky sweetness that avoids the typical grittiness found in most varieties.\nFuji Apples Cuyama, New Cuyama, CA Fujis are a cross between Red Delicious and Ralls Janet, an heirloom \u00a0apple dating back to Thomas Jefferson. Fujis are loved by many for their crisp, sweet, and juicy character.\n\nFuyu Persimmons<\/strong>\nThe Fuyu has a crisp texture and delicate sweet flavor. They have a beau- tiful orange to red hue when ripe. They can be eaten out of hand with \u00a0skin on or peeled. Store on the counter for 3-5 days or refrigerate for longer enjoyment.\n\nPomegranates <\/strong>\n\nAbounding Harvest, Los Gatos, CA<\/em>\n\nNative to the regions of Persia and the Western Himalayan range, \u00a0pomegranates have been cultivated for several millennia. When sliced \u00a0open a beautiful array of jewel like seeds are displayed. The aril is the \u00a0colorful casing that surrounds the edible seeds and has a sweet tart flavor. Enjoy the arils alone or use them in salads, desserts, or beverages.\n

A NOTE FROM FARMER AL<\/h3>\n
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More Olives<\/h4>\nDear CSA Members,\n\n<\/div>\n
\n\nLast Tuesday evening I attended an olive oil tasting event sponsored by CUESA at the Ferry Building. We tasted seven different oils, two of which were ours; last year\u2019s oil and this year\u2019s just pressed olio nuovo. The olio nuovo is amazing....grassy with notes of green banana, walnut, etc.\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\nWe also learned some interesting facts about the olive oil industry. While California olive oil production is rapidly expanding, it still only provides about 3% of the U.S. market for olive oil, which is dominated by Spanish and Italian oils, supplying over 90% of the U.S. market. Up to 65% of that oil is diluted with some sort of tasteless vegetable oil, a corrupt practice which exists because there are really no standards in place to protect the American consumers from this MAFIA dominated industry.\n\nI also learned that most olives here in California are picked by machine. This is made possible by the development of varieties and rootstocks which produce smaller trees with less vigor. These trees, once established, must be pruned back each year to keep the tree within the narrow, short size range that can be straddled by the huge picking machine, which completed encloses each tree as it drives over each row gently pad- dling the olives off of the branches and onto conveyor belts which carry the olives to bins.\n\nBy contrast, our trees are huge (up to 20 feet tall) and extremely dense with branches and foliage. As I drive along looking at my men picking, I can hardly even see them. Just their lower legs and boots on the ladder are visible, as they are immersed in the dense canopy of leaves, searching for the hidden crop. The trees are so tall that we actually have to cut the higher branches and pick them on the ground. Their fingers are heavily wrapped in silver duct tape, as they literally use their fingers like rakes, combing olives off of each branch, into their picking totes. But they\u2019re young, strong, agile, and proud of their work. By the end of each day my team of ten pickers has filled seven bins, which is over 2.5 tons of olives, and they\u2019ll do it five days a week till we\u2019re done. There will probably be about three weeks of picking this year, because the crop is so huge!\n\nTwo years ago, when we reported to our organic certifier CCOF our olive oil tonnage, they couldn\u2019t believe us and actually sent out an inspector to verify that we were producing over 700 gallons of oil from just 2 acres of olives.\n\n \n\n\"Signature\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Seckel Pears A varietal that pre-dates the Bosc, the Seckel is much smaller in size and finds its origins near Philadelphia in the early 1800s. Also known as sugar pears, the Seckel is green with a dark-red blush or in some cases nearly all red. It\u2019s extremely sweet with almost no acid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4109,"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":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/olive-oil-pressing.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-14d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105","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=4105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}