{"id":4166,"date":"2012-01-06T23:03:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T23:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=951"},"modified":"2012-01-06T23:03:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T23:03:35","slug":"week-of-january-2nd-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/week-of-january-2nd-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of January 2nd, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CSA_week_of_1_2_2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CSA_week_of_1_2_2012-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pink Lady Apples, Clementine Oranges, Blood Orange, Kiwi, Warren Pears \" title=\"CSA Week of January 2nd, 2012 \" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-959\" \/><\/a>\n\n\n\n[box_list]\n<ul>\n<li>Warren Pears & Pink Lady Apples; Frog Hollow Farm, \nBrentwood, CA <\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Clementine Oranges, Blood Oranges; Olson Family Farms, Kingsburg, CA <\/li>\n<li>Hayward Kiwi\u2013 Chiechi Farms, Gridley, CA <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[\/box_list]\n\n<h2>From Farmer Al<\/h2> <strong>Paradigm Shift <\/strong>\n\nDear CSA Members\u2013 2012 Will (could) be the year FHF makes a major shift in the way we farm and produce our fruit.  It\u2019s all based on compost and fungi.  Knowledge of the soil, developed by hosts of scientists from many disciplines over the last century, has been coordinated, organized, and developed into a cohesive body of scientific study called \u2018The Soil Food Web\u2019.  This movement, led by Elaine Ingham at the University of Oregon, will change the way we farm here at Frog Hollow. \n\nWe have mentors, a husband and wife team, actually\u2013 Christophe and Monique Krees, who live in San Francisco, and visit the farm weekly to guide us in compost production.  They take samples of the compost to study under their electron microscope, and look at the microbial populations of our compost piles.  They monitor levels of activity between fungi and bacteria, the two great decomposers of our planets\u2019 organic and mineral matter. \u201cWe want fungal dominance in this compost\u201d, they say, and tell us when to add what materials, when to water the compost piles, when to turn, etc. Internal  temperatures are important and are being recorded daily by farm staff, especially Karen and Melissa. \n\nA team of 4 men are shredding tree branches (from the prunings of our trees) to produce a ton per day of wood chips, which is the foundation material for \u2018fungal dominant\u2019 compost. Once the piles meet the \u2018Soil Food Web\u2019 criteria for microbial activity, we will apply the compost to the soil in the orchard, starting with our most delicate trees, the apricots. \n\nOur goal is to create a healthier soil environment for the trees and to shift the balance of fungal populations in favor of a healthy fungi over pathogenic fungi. \n\nStay Tuned, \n\n\n\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/assets\/FarmerAlSig.gif\" width=\"250\" alt=\"Signature of Farmer Al\"> \n\n\n\n<strong>Kimi\u2019s Citrus Dressing- <\/strong>\n I asked Kimi, our Marketing Coordinator and Mail Order expert for a favorite recipe using ingredients from this week\u2019s CSA share\u2013 she suggested something I\u2019d never considered\u2013 using Clementine juice to make a dressing!  Duh!  I guess I have always relied on vinegar or lemons, but I love a vinaigrette that\u2019s not too tart.  \n\n-Juice of one Clementine\n-3 Tablespoons Olive Oil (Frog Hollow Farm Olive Oil if you\u2019ve got it!)\n-1 Tablespoon Cider Vinegar \n\n\n*You can add chopped shallot, garlic, a bit of salt, fresh ground pepper, and sugar to taste\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[box_list] Warren Pears &#038; Pink Lady Apples; Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Clementine Oranges, Blood Oranges; Olson Family Farms, Kingsburg, CA Hayward Kiwi\u2013 Chiechi Farms, Gridley, CA [\/box_list] From Farmer Al Paradigm Shift Dear CSA Members\u2013 2012 Will (could) be the year FHF makes a major shift in the way we farm and produce our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":959,"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":[59,35,9],"tags":[119,230,281,282,283,68],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-newsletter","category-recipes","tag-blood-oranges","tag-compost","tag-hayward-kiwis","tag-olson-famiy-farms","tag-paradigm","tag-pink-lady-apples"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-15c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","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=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/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=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}