{"id":4222,"date":"2014-12-29T22:59:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T22:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2016-04-08T10:46:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T10:46:26","slug":"fruit-and-news-of-the-week-december-29th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/fruit-and-news-of-the-week-december-29th\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit and News of the Week: December 29th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>THIS WEEK'S FRUIT<\/h3>\r\nTarocco Blood Orange\r\n\r\nFrog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA\r\n\r\nA beautiful orange to deep red flesh is revealed when you slice open a Tarocco. The\u00a0flesh of the blood orange is firmer and more dense than an orange and its flavor is a\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">little more tart.<\/span>\r\n\r\nPink Lady Apple\r\n\r\nCuyama Farm, New Cuyama, CA\r\n\r\nA cross between the Golden Delicious and Lady Williams, the Pink Lady is a crisp\u00a0and juicy apple with a tart finish. Pink skins and a creamy white colored flesh that\u00a0resists browning make this an excellent apple for salads and slicing.\r\n\r\nFuji Apples\r\n\r\nCuyama Farm, New Cuyama, CA\r\n\r\nFujis are a cross between Red Delicious and Ralls Janet, an heirloom apple dating back to Thomas Jefferson.\r\n\r\nNavel Oranges\r\n\r\nTwin Girl Farm, Yettem, CA\r\n\r\nCalifornia Navel Oranges are considered to be the best Navels for eating out of hand.\u00a0They have a thick skin that is easy to peel, are seedless and have a meaty and sweet\u00a0flesh that makes them a perfect snack.\r\n\r\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Hayward Kiwis<\/span>\r\n\r\nChiechi Farm, Live Oak, CA\r\n\r\nOriginally known as the Chinese gooseberry due to its Chinese origins. Hawyward\u00a0Wright, a New Zealand nurseryman propagated his plants by grafting, and they eventually became the preferred cultivar of growers due to their sweet flavor and thin skin.\r\n\r\nOwari Satsuma Mandarins\r\n\r\nAbounding Harvest Mounain Farm, Los Gatos, CA\r\n\r\nSatsumas are typically seedless with a thin skin that is loosely attached to the flesh\u00a0making them very easy to peel. The flesh of the mandarin is very sweet and delicate\u00a0leaving them susceptible to bruising, so handle with care.\r\n\r\nRuby Grapefruit\r\n\r\nSundance Organic, Oceanside, CA\r\n\r\nThe Grapefruit is said to cross between the Jamaican sweet orange and the Indonesian\u00a0pomelo, first documented in 1750. Ruby grapefruit was an accidental discovery of a red\u00a0fruit growing on a pink grapefruit tree.\r\n\r\nCara Cara\r\n\r\nHome Grown Organics\r\n\r\nThe Cara Cara or red-fleshed navel orange is believed to have developed as a cross\u00a0between the Washington navel and the Brazilian Bahia navel. It was discovered at the\u00a0Hacienda de Cara Cara in Valencia, Venezuela in 1976.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS WEEK&#8217;S FRUIT Tarocco Blood Orange Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A beautiful orange to deep red flesh is revealed when you slice open a Tarocco. The\u00a0flesh of the blood orange is firmer and more dense than an orange and its flavor is a\u00a0little more tart. Pink Lady Apple Cuyama Farm, New Cuyama, CA A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-weeks-box"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-166","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","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=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5248,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions\/5248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}