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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…
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Fruit & News of the Week: January 16th
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: accumulations, aeration, Brentwood, chichi farm, clay loam soil, Clementine Mandarins, compact, compaction, cuyama farm, dangerous, draught, Frog Hollow Farm, Fuerte Avocado, Fuji apples, Hayward Kiwis, homegrown organic farm, ladders, Live Oak, microbe, moisture, muddy, Navel Oranges, new cuyama, nutrient cycling, orchard, pink lady apples, porterville, pruning, rain, slippery, soggy, soil, storms, tarocco blood oranges, Temecula, Twin Girls Farm, water holding capacity, water penetration, wet, Yettem
Fruit & News of the Week: January 2nd
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Navel Oranges Twin Girls Farm, Yettem, CA California Navel Oranges are considered to be the best Navels for eating out of hand. They have a thick skin that is easy to peel, are seedless and have a…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: blossoms, bud-break, Chiechi Farm, chill, Clementine Mandarins, cold, CSA, cuyama farm, Drought, Fuji apples, Hamilton Growers, Hayward Kiwis, homegrown organic farm, irrigation, Navel, orange, pink lady apples, Pomegranate, Sierra Nevada Range, snow, Twin Girls Farm, water, white
Fruit & News of the Week: December 5th
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: canal, Clementine Mandarins, desert, Fuji apples, Fuyu Persimmons, Hayward Kiwis, irrigation, Owari Satsuma Mandarins, pomegranates, Sierra Nevada Mountains, snow, Summer Solstice Dinner
Fruit and News of the Week: January 20th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT Torocco Blood Oranges 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 and its flavor is a…
Posted in Newsletter, Uncategorized Tagged with: Apples, blood oranges, Citrus, Community, CSA, Farmer Al, Frog Hollow, Frog Hollow Farm, Fuji apples, meyer lemons, Navel Oranges
Fruit and News of the Week: December 30th
THIS WEEKS FRUIT Hayward Kiwi Chieci Farm, Live Oak, CA Originally known as the Chinese gooseberry due to its due to their sweet flavor and thin skin. Hayward Wright, a New Zealand nurseryman propagated his plants by grafting. They eventually became the…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: Apples, Citrus, CSA, Farmer Al, Frog Hollow, Frog Hollow Farm, Fuji apples, Kiwi, Navel Oranges, Organic
