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Here are Frog Hollow, we are very happy to be working with NRCS for a 4th year in a row, planting trees, shrubs and 50 total acres of conservation cover crop. NRCS stand for the National Resource Conservation Service, a…
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Farm Focus: A Note from Farmer Kristin
Posted in Blog Tagged with: #nrcs, bat, bird houses, boxes, carbon, conservation, cover crop, dust, erosion, Gordon Frankie, longevity, National Resource Conservation Service, native wildflowers, nectar, owls, pollinator cover crop, seed, soil quality, Trees, UC Berkeley, wind break
Fruit & News of the Week: September 12th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Emerald Beaut Plum Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A freestone plum, the Emerald Beaut is a delicate green that turns golden with a hint of a blush. It has a firmer texture than the Santa Rosa with…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: air quality hazard, Brentwood corn, cannery tomatoes, corn, dust, dust mites, Emerald Beaut, flavor fall, Grapes, Hosui Asian Pear, mount diablo, mowing, open ground, Pink Lady, Pluot, poem, red flame, sunsets, tomato, warren pear
Farm Focus: Mites
It’s the year of the two spotted mites. A mite is a species of spider. The two spot might and the European red mite can cause devastating damage to peaches and nectarines. Luckily, they ignore everything else in our orchard but this…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: dust, hot weather, infestation, irrigation, leaves, microorganisms, mites, Nectarines, peaches, phenolic, red dots, spider, stylet oil, vermicompost tea
Farm Focus: From Blossoms
BY LI-YOUNG LEE From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the road where we turned toward signs painted Peaches. From laden boughs, from hands, from sweet fellowship in the…
