{"id":4237,"date":"2015-01-05T21:12:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T21:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2016-04-08T10:43:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T10:43:42","slug":"fruit-and-news-of-the-week-january-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/fruit-and-news-of-the-week-january-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit and News of the Week: January 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>THIS WEEK'S FRUIT<\/h3>\r\n<strong>Tarocco Blood Orange<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<em>Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA<\/em>\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\u00a0little more tart.\r\n\r\n<strong>Pink Lady Apple<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<em>Cuyama Farm, New Cuyama, CA<\/em>\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\n<strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Fuji Apples<\/span><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<em>Cuyama Farm, New Cuyama, CA<\/em>\r\n\r\nFujis are a cross between Red Delicious and Ralls Janet, an heirloom apple dating back\u00a0to Thomas Jefferson.\r\n\r\n<strong>Navel Oranges<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<em>Twin Girl Farm, Yettem, CA<\/em>\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<strong>Hayward Kiwis<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<em>Chiechi Farm, Live Oak, CA<\/em>\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\n<strong>Satsuma Mandarins<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<em>Twin Girl Farm, Yettem, CA<\/em>\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\n<strong>Pomegranate<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<em>\u00a0Home Grown Organics, Porterville, CA<\/em>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Native to the regions of Persia and the Western Himalayan range, pomegranates have\u00a0<\/span>been cultivated for several millennia. When sliced open a beautiful array of jewel like\u00a0seeds are displayed. The aril is the colorful casing that surrounds the edible seeds and\u00a0has a sweet tart flavor. Enjoy the arils alone or use them in salads, desserts, or beverages.\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-4237","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-16l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","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=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5243,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions\/5243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}