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THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Sanguinelli Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Sanguinelli is the latest variety of our blood oranges. The flesh is sweet and ranges in color from orange with dark red streaking to a dark red maroon. Sanguinellis…
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Fruit & News of the Week: March 27th
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: apple, apricots, Avocado, bees, Blood Orange, bravocado, Brentwood, cherries, Chiechi Farm, fall off, flavor kings, Frog Hollow Farm, fruit, fruit set report, fuji, hass, Hayward, Kiwi, linden, Lindsay, Live Oak, mildew spores, Navel, Olson Organics, orange, peaches, pears, Pink Lady, plum, Pluots, pollinate, pruning, rain, ruby grapefruit, san diego, sanguinelli, smit farm, Soil Fertility, soil moisture, sundance, vigor, warrens, wet weather
Fruit & News of the Week: March 6th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Moro Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Moros have a deep red flesh and tart flavor with a rind that tends to blush into hues of red. The Moro is a wonderful orange for juicing or cooking…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: apricots, beauty, bees, blooming, bravocado, Brentwood, cuyama farm, energy, Frog Hollow Farm, fuji apple, grass, Hass Avocados, health, Honey, hope, ladders, life, linden, Lindsay, Moro blood orange, Navel Orange, new cuyama, Olson Organics, pink lady apple, planting, Plums, Pluots, pruning, san diego, skeletal, spring, transformation, tree team
Farm Focus: Pollination Season
We are smack dab in the middle of pollination season! The apricots, plums and peaches are in bloom and the apples and pears will be flowering soon. The process of pollination varies depending on what variety of stone fruit we…
Farm Focus: Brown Rot
Some of you may remember, but 2010 and 2011 were devastating years for our apricot crop at Frog Hollow Farm. You may have tried to block those years from your memory, but those years were real and scary losses for…
Fruit & News of the Week: January 23rd
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Tarocco Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A beautiful orange to deep red flesh is revealed when you slice open a Tarocco. The flesh of the blood orange is firmer and more dense than an orange…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: aeration, apricots, bee habitat, Brentwood, brown rot, Chiechi Farm, Clementine Mandarins, Compost, cover crop seed, cuyama farm, Drought, erosion, Frog Hollow Farm, fuji apple, germination, Hayward Kiwi, homegrown organic farm, irrigate, kumquats, Live Oak, moisture, Navel Orange, organic matter, oyster-shell lime, pink lady apple, planting, porterville, pruning, rain, root penetration, root zone, soil, tarocco blood oranges, Twin Girls Farm, water cost, water holding capacity, Yettem
