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While most of the farm is busy ramping up for stone fruit, the veggie farmers have been spending the last few weeks transplanting all 1100 tomato plants out into the field. We started a couple months ago with tomato seeds…
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Farm Focus: Tomatoes!
Posted in Blog Tagged with: californ, canning, conzerve, greenhouse, ketchup, Organic Farming, pruning, saucing tomatoes, summer, tomatoes, vegetable farming, vermi-compost
Farm Focus: Diversification Expansion at Frog Hollow
November and December are very important months on our farm. Nourishing trees with compost during the winter months is just as imperative as the work we do in the spring and summer months. The fall and winter, however, do provide…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: Barley, beer, bread, chocolate, diversification, emerald beauts, expansion, family farm, flour, fruit, fuyu, hachiyas, Heirloom, industrial factory farming, ketchup, machines, Mandarins, modern farming, Olive Oil, pasta, pastries, Peppers, persimmon, planting, Plums, Pluots, soft white winter wheat, Sonora Wheat, tomatoes, varieties, Warren Pears, wheat
Fruit & News of the Week: August 22nd
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Summerset Peach Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA The Summerset matures into a very large peach, some weighing in at more than two pounds! Bright yellow with hardly no blush to speak of, the Summerset is a freestone that…
Posted in Newsletter, Uncategorized Tagged with: Apples, August Red, beneficial insects, coddling moth, Emerald Beaut, emerald beauts, Flavor Heart, Flavor King, Grapes, harvesting, japanese black trifele, ketchup, lucid gem, nectarine, olio-nuevo, Olives, peach, plum, Pluot, red brandywine, red seedless, Shinko Pears, summerset, tomatoes, varieties, watermelon beefsteak
Fruit & News of the Week: August 15th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Cal Red Peach Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA The beloved Cal Red is in a class by itself and is the “Oh my God” peach! A relatively new variety and a California native, the Cal Red was bred…
Posted in Newsletter, Uncategorized Tagged with: 3000 pounds, Apples, Asian Pears, August Red, autumn flame, basil, Cal Red, cold storage, conserve, crimson royale, cucumbers, dried fruit, eggplant, emerald beauts, Flavor Heart, Flavor King, freezing, garden, Grapes, gravensteins, harvest, heirlooms, hosui, ketchup, kitchen, nectarine, orchard, pallets, peach, Peppers, pesto, pink pearls, Pluot, pomegranate jelly, roasted, sandwich, sauce, shinko, shinseki, soup, squash, summerset, tomato conserva, tomatoes, varieties, zucchini
