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Fruit and News: Week of May 14th, 2012

photo of a csa box with mostly apricots, a handful of peaches, and a clamshell of cherries

Working with compost has made me much more aware of fungi and the major role it plays, both in the environment and the ecology of life on this planet. Fungi, along with bacteria and other microbial life, are the foundation of soil, which is of course, the source of most of our food.

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Farm Focus: Pest Control

Native flowers on the farm promote a healthy habitat.

In last week’s newsletter we talked about how we leave our weed cuttings in the tree rows to provide organic matter for the soil. Leaving these weed cuttings in the rows also provides nest-building materials for our friends, the earwig eating birds.

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Fruit and News: Week of May 7th, 2012

young fruit next to a quarter for scale with dime sized chunks missing

Earwig invasion! Last Tuesday, the Tree Team leader, Antonio, came to me with handfuls of nectarines and peaches–fruit about the size of a quarter–that they had thinned to show me that the annual earwig invasion had begun.

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Week of February 27th, 2012

Week of Feb 27th CSA Box

In This Week’s Box [box_list] Navel Oranges, Fuerte & Hass Avocados, (one type only will be in your box) Olsen Organic Farm, Lindsay, CA Kiwis, Chiechi Farms, Gridley, CA Pink Lady Apples, Cuyama, New Cuyama, CA Grapefruit, Rucker Homestead, Mecca,

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