{"id":5296,"date":"2014-09-22T12:50:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T12:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2016-04-08T12:51:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T12:51:45","slug":"a-note-from-farmer-al-sept-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/a-note-from-farmer-al-sept-22nd\/","title":{"rendered":"A note from farmer Al : Sept 22nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A NOTE FROM FARMER AL<\/h3>\r\nDear CSA Members,\r\n\r\nEvery day, as I pass by our rows of olive trees, I\u2019m amazed by the sight \u00a0of so many olives draped on heavily hanging branches. This will surely \u00a0be a record harvest for us, and also the earliest. Looks like we\u2019ll be \u00a0picking this big crop starting the last week of October!\r\n\r\nDeciding just when the best time to pick is always a challenge. The pick \u00a0date is a critical aspect in achieving the flavor profile we\u2019re looking for, \u00a0which is the classic Tuscan-style oil, peppery, pungent, spicy, grassy and \u00a0bold.\r\n\r\nFour olive varieties are planted next to each other in the same row, in a \u00a0specific ratio: Frantoio 55%, Leccino 25%, Pendolino 12%, and Maurino \u00a05%. We're looking for the dominant variety Frantoio, to be about 50% \u00a0ripe when we begin picking. We judge ripeness by color, so the olives \u00a0should be half purple, half green. Meanwhile, the Maurinos, Leccinos\r\nand Pendolinos have fully ripened. Since all four varieties are picked \u00a0at the same time into the same bins, the blend is achieved in the bins, \u00a0which are sent to the mill for pressing the same day they are picked.\r\n\r\nLast year\u2019s oil was the best we\u2019ve ever had, and of course, we\u2019re hoping \u00a0to continue this high quality again this year!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NOTE FROM FARMER AL Dear CSA Members, Every day, as I pass by our rows of olive trees, I\u2019m amazed by the sight \u00a0of so many olives draped on heavily hanging branches. This will surely \u00a0be a record harvest for us, and also the earliest. Looks like we\u2019ll be \u00a0picking this big crop starting [&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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-from-farmer-al"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-1nq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","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=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5297,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}