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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…
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
Fruit & News of the Week: December 12th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Fuyu Persimmons Chiechi Farm, Live Oak, CA The Fuyu has a crisp texture with a rich honey sweet flavor. They have a beautiful orange to red hue when ripe, often with tiny brown speckles on the skin.…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: Abounding Harvest, berms, biological life, broccoli, calcium, cauliflower, Chiechi Farm, compaction, Compost, cuyama farm, disc, drip irrigation, Drought, fungal, fuyu, garlic, germinated, greenhouse, Hamilton Growers, hand weeded, Hayward Kiwis, hoes, kale, lettuce, micronutrients, no till, olsen organics, onions, Owari Satsuma Mandarins, oyster shell flour, Peppers, permanent beds, persimmons, pest pressures, pomegranates, potassium, rain, rakes, ridger, soil structure, sulphur, sulphur potash, tomatoes, underground ecosystems, vegetable growing, winter vegetables
Farm Focus: Peach Plantings
Last February we planted 20 acres of our peak season peaches. These trees are going to fill in for some older orchards that are in decline in production. Once the new trees reach production, we will begin removing the old…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: "first leaf", Compost, five years, peaches, planted, planting, production, pruning, scaffold, vermicompost
Fruit & News of the Week: September 26th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Flavor Rich Pluots Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A small pluot about the size of golf ball with deep purple skin and a golden flesh that has an excellent balance of acidity and sweetness. Hosui Asian Pears…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: apple, Asian pear, chain saws, Compost, fall, flavor rich, fruiting wood, Grapes, hosui, labor, minerals, moisture, mulch, muscat, Pink Lady, Pluots, pruning, shinseiki, spreading, sunlight, thermophile, vermicompost, vitamins, warren pear, worms
