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Week of May 8th 2011

CSA Box with blueberries, strawberries, grapefruit, tangelos, tangerines, avocados and apples

Next week we’ll be picking the first stone fruit of 2011, a new variety of peach called “Super Z”.

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Week of May 1st 2011

CSA Box filled with blueberries, strawberries, apples, oranges, tangerines, and avocados

Back in the good ol’ days when I was young–just getting started here in Brentwood, and Frog Hollow Farm was still a dream not even yet dreamed…

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Week of April 18th 2011

CSA Box with tangerines, oranges, apples, avocados, and a jar of apricot conserve

The cherry outlook is good…but late. They’ll arrive maybe a week to even 10 days later than last year which was the usual start date of May 15.

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Recipe – Avocado Ice Cream

A single scoop of avocado ice cream in a glass dish.

As the much needed warm weather brings sun to the trees, we enjoyed some avocado ice cream here at the farm.

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Week of March 21st 2011

CSA Box filled with apples, oranges, tangelos, avocados, and a jar of olive oil.

So, I just finished commiserating with my friend Bill Denevan, the apple grower from Santa Cruz, and he told me a couple of war stories about years past like this one.

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