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Farm Focus: UC Berkeley Urban Bee Lab Part 2

In the past seven years, the Berkeley Urban Bee Lab has helped Frog Hollow seed 20 acres of our farm with over 500 individual plant types. They have successfully grown the population of native bees on our farm from 20

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Farm Focus: The Berkeley Urban Bee Lab

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Our food system is in trouble.  Farming has become increasingly more difficult. Many factors are causing farming to become increasingly more difficult including, climate change, an increasing need for bee keepers and bee pollinators, and a drastic decrease in the

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Fruit and News: Week of March 10th 2013

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This Week’s Fruit Hass Avocados Rainbow Eco Farm, Rainbow,CA or Las Palmalitas, Carpinteria, CA Creamy in texture, nutty in flavor, with a small to medium seed. The Hass skin is easy to peel and darkens from green to purplish-black as

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Fruit and News: Week of February 25th 2013

This Week’s Fruit Hass Avocados Stehly Farms Organics, Valley Center, CA Creamy in texture, nutty in flavor, with a small to medium seed. The Hass skin is easy to peel and darkens from green to purplish-black as it ripens. You

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Week of March 12th, 2012

Box of Avocados, Oranges, Kiwi, Apples

In This Week’s Box [box_list] Pink Lady Apples, Cuyama, New Cuyama, CA Navel Oranges, Hass Avocados, Olsen Organic Farm, Lindsay, CA Kiwi, Brandt Farms, Reedly, CA Ruby Red Grapefruit, Sundance, Oceanside, CA Golden Nugget Mandarins, Cunningham Organic Farm, Fallbrook, CA

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