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Farm Focus: Jose Sandoval

Meet Jose Sandoval.  If you’ve enjoyed any of the goodies that come out of our Farm Kitchen, please thank Jose.  He’s our Farm Kitchen Manager and well loved on the farm. Jose grew up in Michoacan, Mexico and came to

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Fruit and News: Week of May 27th 2013

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This Week’s Fruit Bing Cherries Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Farmer Al likes to say, “Bing is King!” Not only is the Bing our most popular variety, they’re the most popular and commonly grown cherry in California today. For good

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Farm Focus: A Rose By Any Other Name

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Becky Talks Conserves A lot of people ask me why we use “conserve” to describe our jams instead of just “jam” or “preserve”. There are a lot of misnomers around what a jam or preserve is. There is what we

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  • Recipe: Pork Chops with Apples and Onions

    Pork Chops with Apples and Onions
    via Martha Stewart

     
    Ingredients:
    6 bone-in pork chops (loin or shoulder), cut 3/4 inch thick
    Coarse salt and fres…

  • Farm Focus: The Buzz with Bees

    Spring is synonymous with blooming flowers and where there are blooming flowers there are bees! And while most people think  of European honey bees, we  w…

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

    This Week’s Fruit:
    Minneloa Tangelos
    Twin Girls Farm, Dinuba, CA
    The Tangelo is a cross between a mandarin and grapefruit. Its skin is easy to peel and its f…

  • 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

    Jim of Churchill-Brenneis Orchard, never imagined himself becoming a farmer, though he grew up walking through friends orchards on weekend trips from LA. His pa…