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THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Navel Oranges Olson Organics, Lindsay, CA California Navel Oranges are considered to be the best Navels for eating out of hand. They have a thick skin that is easy to peel, are seedless and have a meaty…
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Fruit & News of the Week: April 17th
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: apricots, bravocado, cherries, churchill orchard, fire blight, global warming, golden sweet, harvest, hass avocado, irrigation, linden, Lindsay, los angeles, mildew, Navel Orange, ojai, Olson Organics, pears, pink lady apple, pixie tangerine, premium citrus, rain, san diego, Sarah, smit farm, tango mandarins, tomatoes
Farm Focus: Early Summer Crops
The beauty of a Community Supported Agriculture program is the connection forged between the farm and our community of supporters. We are in this together and, while we are all affected when a crop suffers, we also reap the rewards…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: apricots, Bay Area, Bay Area CSA, California, canning, cherries, Climate Change, Community, Compost, crop report, CSA, east bay, eating local, eating seasonal, farm, farm to table, farming, Plums, Pluots, stone fruit, summer, tomatoes
Fruit & News of the Week: March 27th
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…
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 and News of the Week: April 11th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Hass Avocado Churchill, Ojai, 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. Fuji Apple Cuyama, New Cuyama,CA…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: been, bumper crop, cherries, fruit-set, Gold Dust, grand slam, small fruits, thinning, warren pear
Farm Focus: A New Hope for Cherries
Next we’ll be picking Rainer cherries. Our harvest this year, sadly like those of the past two years is very meager. But we’re feeling blessed to have as much as we do. Cherry orchards all over the state of CA are experiencing…
