{"id":4128,"date":"2011-03-15T16:38:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T16:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2011-03-15T16:38:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T16:38:53","slug":"week-of-march-14th-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/week-of-march-14th-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of March 14th 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In This Week's Box<\/h2>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2011-03-14-14.35.18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/2011-03-14-14.35.18-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"CSA box with apples, oranges, tangelos, avocados.\" title=\"CSA Box - Week of Mar 14 2011\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-310\" \/><\/a>\n\n[box_list]\n<ul>\n\t<li>Navel oranges, Oceanside, CA<\/li>\n\t<li>Golden Nugget tangerine, Oceanside, CA<\/li>\n\t<li>Minneola tangelo, Oceanside, CA<\/li>\n\t<li>Hass avocado, Oceanside, CA<\/li>\n\t<li>Pink Lady apples, Cuyama, CA<\/li>\n\t<li>Fuji apples, Cuyama, CA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/box_list]\n\n\n[print_this]\n<h2>From Farmer Al<\/h2>\n\nOur second annual Blossom Festival was a big success, with good weather and great \u201cbee\u201d talks by our honeybee beekeeper, Alan Hawkins, and our native bee specialist, Marissa Ponder from UC Berkeley. Organic farming methods were discussed by me during a walking tour of the farm which covered almost a mile of sublimely beautiful blossoms. A fantastic day.\n\nBut then later that night it rained! A warm rain. Just the worst kind of conditions for us, favoring brown rot growth and crop loss. We\u2019re already seeing significant brown rot in our Goldensweet apricots from the previous week\u2019s warm storm and now we\u2019ll deal with the fallout of this one, hitting right on full bloom for our peaches. There\u2019s more wet weather on the way all this week.\n\nAll of this tragedy amidst such beauty! Someone should write an opera. Any volunteers out there?\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/assets\/FarmerAlSig.gif\" width=\"250\" alt=\"Signature of Farmer Al\">\n\n<hr style=\"margin-bottom:20px\" \/>\n\n<h2>Albany Dinner Swap & Social<\/h2>\n\nIf you live, work, or pick up your CSA box in the Albany or North Berkeley area, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albanyca.org\/index.aspx?page=810\">Albany Community Center<\/a> is hosting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albanyca.org\/index.aspx?page=994\">Dinner Swap & Social<\/a> on the evening of April 25th. Kimi participated in the March event held last week and had a great time meeting other Albany\/Westbrae locals. A low-key community building event, it includes a wine tasting and snacks and is kid-friendly with lots of room for kids to play. Participants bring 3 portions of a main dish (each portion enough for a family of four) and swap, going home with three full meals to enjoy that week or freeze for the future. For more info or to RSVP, contact <a href=\"mailto:rmariona@albanyca.org?subject=Dinner Swap inquiry from Happy Child CSA\">Robin Mariona<\/a>, the event organizer.\n\n<h2>2011 Blossom Festival<\/h2>\n\nThank you to our CSA members who attended. We hope you had a good time! Our next event is in the planning stages and as soon as we have a date, we'll let you know so you can mark your calendars.\n\n<h2>Flyers available<\/h2>\n\nIf you want to help grow your site, let us know and we'll send you flyers (or a PDF) that you can post or email to anyone who might be interested in joining. Since active members receive 10% off going from one season to the next, if you know someone who has been thinking of joining, now's the time for them to get a 4-week trial started!\n\n<h2>Our website<\/h2>\n\nAs we've settled into our theme for the layout here on the website, we'll be transitioning the CSAware powered portion to match. The functionality will stay the same, but the temporary header and layout will soon blend seamlessly between the \"blog\" portion of the site and the account management portion.\n\n[\/print_this]","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our second annual Blossom Festival was a big success, with good weather and great \u201cbee\u201d talks by our honeybee beekeeper, Alan Hawkins, and our native bee specialist, Marissa Ponder from UC Berkeley. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":310,"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":[59,35],"tags":[157,58,60,142,114,158,61,124,159,160,143,154,64,155,161,68,73,162,163],"class_list":["post-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-newsletter","tag-albany","tag-apples","tag-avocados","tag-bees","tag-blossom-festival","tag-blossoms","tag-citrus","tag-community","tag-community-building","tag-crop","tag-events","tag-golden-nugget-tangerines","tag-hass-avocados","tag-minneola-tangelos","tag-north-berkeley","tag-pink-lady-apples","tag-tangerines","tag-weather","tag-westbrae"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-14A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","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=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}