{"id":4170,"date":"2012-02-02T21:50:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T21:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2012-02-02T21:50:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T21:50:17","slug":"week-of-january-30th-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/week-of-january-30th-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of January 30th, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In This Week's Box<\/h2> <a href=\"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1_30_2012_CSA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1_30_2012_CSA-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Fruit\" title=\"1_30_2012_CSA\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1_30_2012_CSA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1_30_2012_CSA-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\n[box_list]\n<ul>\n<li>Navel Oranges, Fuerte Avocados,  Olsen Organic Farm, Lindsay, CA <\/li>\n<li>Meyer Lemons, Tarocco Blood Oranges, Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA <\/li>\n<li>Kiwis, Chiechi Farms, Gridley, CA<\/li>\n<li>Fuji Apples, Cuyama, New Cuyama, CA  <\/li>\n<li>Satsuma Mandarins, Twin Girl, Yettem, CA <\/li><ul>\n<\/ul>\n[\/box_list]\n\n[print_this] <h2>From Farmer Al<\/h2> \n\nDear CSA Members,      \n\n<strong>Seize the Moment <\/strong>\nSomething farmers must do often! We\u2019re always scrambling to 1. Beat a weather system coming in (as in getting some task done before the rains hit!) 2. Respond to an outbreak of something bad, like insects or disease 3. Respond to equipment failures 4. Respond to a drought 5. Respond to untimely rain (like last Summers\u2019 rain on our cherries!) 6. Respond to new information (e.g. new science) 7. Respond to old information we\u2019d forgotten about. \n\nThis week the new thing is \u201cpaint the cherry trees white.\u201d  Our cherries are planted on a new dwarfing rootstock from Germany called \u201cGisela\u201d.  Dwarfing means that the trees grow less large (but still pretty tall) and less vigorous.  But this  means more exposure of scaffold limbs to direct sunlight, which causes sunburn.  So, the \u201ctheory\u201d is, paint the exposed portion of the branches white to reflect the rays of the sun (we use a lime\/calcium product that is not harmful to humans or the trees) and thereby prevent the bark from burning.  It\u2019s just another one of those \u201cseize the moment\u201d moments! \n\nOn the \u201cseize the moment\u201d subject, this week we\u2019ll be reaching out to all of you for help. We really need to grow our CSA membership, for a whole long list of reasons.  We\u2019re asking each of you to refer us to one or two (or many!) of your friends for us to talk about becoming CSA members.  Please look for our call or email, and give us your help. \n\nThanks, \n\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/assets\/FarmerAlSig.gif\" width=\"250\" alt=\"Signature of Farmer Al\"> [\/print_this]\n\n<strong>\nGrilled Feta with Blood Orange, Red Pepper and Mint Salsa<\/strong>\u2013adapted from a recipe at tastefoodblog.com \nFeta cheese lends itself well to grilling; it browns nicely and softens somewhat, but doesn\u2019t lose it\u2019s shape. Serves 4 as an appetizer. I\u2019m not sure how many of you watch the Super Bowl, but if you do, why not do it in tasty style!  For me, it\u2019s all about the food\/dip!  Touchdown!  \nFor the salsa:\n\n1 blood orange, skin, seeds and membrane removed, cut in 1\/4\u2033 pieces\n1 small sweet red pepper, stemmed and seeded, finely diced\n1 small red onion, finely diced\n1\/4 cup chopped fresh mint leaves\njuice of one Meyer Lemon \nSalt and Pepper to taste \n\nFor the feta:\n1 teaspoon cumin seeds\n1 teaspoon coriander seeds\n1\/2 teaspoon black peppercorns\n1\/2 pound block of feta cheese\n1\/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil\nFresh whole mint leaves for garnish\n\nToast cumin and coriander seeds in a dry skillet over medium heat until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Transfer to a mortar with pestle. Add peppercorns. Grind until fine.\nPreheat oven broiler. Drain feta and pat dry with a kitchen towel. Pat spices on all sides of feta. Cut in 1\/2\u2033 slices. Arrange feta slices in a baking pan. Drizzle with olive oil. Grill in oven until edges turn golden.\n\nArrange slices on a serving plate. (Try and return it to its original block shape for a nice presentation.) Spoon olive oil around feta. Top feta with salsa. Garnish with mint leaves. Serve immediately with pita bread, crostini or peasant bread.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In This Week&#8217;s Box [box_list] Navel Oranges, Fuerte Avocados, Olsen Organic Farm, Lindsay, CA Meyer Lemons, Tarocco Blood Oranges, Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Kiwis, Chiechi Farms, Gridley, CA Fuji Apples, Cuyama, New Cuyama, CA Satsuma Mandarins, Twin Girl, Yettem, CA [\/box_list] [print_this] From Farmer Al Dear CSA Members, Seize the Moment Something farmers must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1051,"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":[60,119,61,108,83],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-newsletter","tag-avocados","tag-blood-oranges","tag-citrus","tag-fuji-apples","tag-kiwi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/1_30_2012_CSA.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-15g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","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=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}