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Fruit & News of the Week: February 5th, 2018

This Week’s Fruit: Sanguinelli Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Sanguinelli flesh is sweet and ranges in color from orange with dark red streaking to a dark red maroon. Meyer Lemons Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Thought to be

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Farm Focus: Brown Rot

Apricot buds in the popcorn stage

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

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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

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Fruit & News: Week of May 30th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT:  Rainier Cherries Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Created in 1952 at Washington State University, Rainiers are a cross between the Bing and Van. Plump, delicious, and with ex- tremely sweet creamy flesh, they can be more fragile

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Week of January 16th, 2012

CSA Week of 1-16-2012

In This Week’s Box [box_list] Navel Oranges, Fuerte Avocados, Olsen Organic Farm, Lindsey, CA Navel Oranges (larger type) Purity Organic, Kerman, CA Meyer Lemons, Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Algerian Clementine’s, Satsuma’s, Abounding Harvest, Los Gatos, CA Kiwis, Chiechi Farms,

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    via Martha Stewart

     
    Ingredients:
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    Coarse salt and fres…

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  • Fruit & News of the Week: April 9, 2018

    This Week’s Fruit:
    Minneloa Tangelos
    Twin Girls Farm, Dinuba, CA
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  • Recipe: DIY Orange Soda

    Via Food52

    Ingredients:

    4 oranges
    1 lime
    1 cup granulated sugar
    Lemon lime seltzer water

    Method:

    Zest the oranges and the lime and add all o…

  • Farm Focus: Jim Churchill of Churchill-Brenneis Orchard

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