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Fruit of the Week Suncrest Peaches Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A Slow Food Ark heritage variety, the Suncrest has all the old-fashioned taste of days gone by. Its a truly memorable peach whose firm but juicy flesh provides a…
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Fruit & News of the Week: July 7, 2017
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: agroecology, Compost, compost management, compost tea, farmer, Farmer Al, farming, Frog Hollow Farm, IPP, irregation, manure, Nectarines, orchard management, Organic Farming, organic orchard, peaches, Pluots, resorative farming, soil, vermicompost
Farm Focus: Feeding Our Compost
At Frog Hollow, we don’t have cattle like TomKat ranch, but we have our own systems to sequester carbon and regenerate our soil. We use our farm resources to add a diversity of microbial life to our soil through our…
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
Farm Focus: Carbon Sequestration
Global warming is a hot topic, both literally and figuratively. It is complex and impacts each one of us. Though complex, most climate scientists agree that human activity has caused certain gases, such as carbon, to be released into our…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: Agriculture, atmosphere, CalCAN, California, carbon, carbon trading, chemicals, climate, Compost, cover crop, emissions, food system, gas, global warming, greenhouse, healthy, healthy soils initiative, legislators, Microbes, regulators, senators, sequestering, soil, tax
Farm Focus: Pruning Time & Spring Stroll Event
It’s Pruning Time! Winter on the farm is far from uneventful. Trees may be dormant, but our teams are far from it. Preparation and work during winter sets the tone for the success of our summer stone fruit. As mentioned…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: balance, bloom, branches, buds, chain saw, comb, Compost, compost tea, cut, dormant, energy, event, fruit, Honey, honeybee hive, orchard, pollinator, pruning, spring stroll, stone fruit, sunlight, team leader, tree team, winter
