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Fruit of the Week: Sweet Ann Strawberries JW Farms, Watsonville, CA The Sweet Anne is a fairly new variety, created in 2005 to grow in the coastal climates like Santa Cruz County. Sweet Anns are usually big, conically-shaped berries with…
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Fruit of the Week: May 8th
Posted in Newsletter, Uncategorized Tagged with: avocados, Bay Area, Bay Area CSA, caifornia grown, community supported agriculture, CSA, farming, Mandarins, Organic, pixie, strawberries, tango
Farm Focus: Asian Pear Plantings
We are slowly but surely building up our fall and winter fruit crops with the goal of providing more Frog Hollow fruit for our CSA year round. Last year, we were pleased to plant 5 varieties of mandarins and 2…
Farm Focus: Frog Hollow Citrus Update
More citrus at Frog Hollow is in the works! We hope you are all enjoying the arrival of our blood orange crop! As much as we love and appreciate the delicious fruits our partner growers provide during the fall and…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: acres, Blood Orange, Citrus, Clementines, gold nugget mandarins, kumquats, Mandarins, meyer lemons, ovary satsumas, page tangerines, partner growers, pixie tangerines, varieties
Fruit & News of the Week: November 28th
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: Apples, Chiechi Farm, Clementine, cold, Cuyama, energy, foggy, fruit buds, fuji, fuyu, Hayward, Kiwis, Lindsay, Live Oak, Mandarins, muddy, Navel, olsen organics, orange, persimmons, pomegranates, pruning, rootstock incompatibility, tree team, Twin Girls Farm, Warren Pear trees, Yettem
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
