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Week of March 21st 2011

Posted on by Kimi Owens
CSA Box filled with apples, oranges, tangelos, avocados, and a jar of olive oil.
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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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Week of December 27th

Posted on by jeff
White field bins full of just picked apples that are green with a red blush.
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The wet weather continues to hit us here in Brentwood, which keeps us from our winter work of pruning the trees for next year’s harvest. The rain also takes away the chilling hours I mentioned in last week’s newsletter.

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