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This Week’s Fruit Hass Avocados Las Palmalitas, Carpinteria, CA Creamy in texture, nutty in flavor, with a small to medium seed. The Hass skin is easy to peel and darkens from green to purplish-black as it ripens. You can tell…
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Fruit and News: Week of March 18th 2013
Posted in Newsletter, Uncategorized Tagged with: avocados, CSA, Fuji apples, Kiwi, moro blood oranges, Organic, pink lady apples
Farm Focus: A Rose By Any Other Name
Becky Talks Conserves A lot of people ask me why we use “conserve” to describe our jams instead of just “jam” or “preserve”. There are a lot of misnomers around what a jam or preserve is. There is what we…
Recipe: Skillet Beans and Eggs with Cumin and Avocado
Delicious for breakfast, lunch, or dinner Ingredients 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion, diced 4 cloves garlic, minced 2 teaspoons cumin seed, toasted then ground 1/2 pound dried pinto beans cooked and drained 1 28-ounce can diced tomatoes with their…
Farm Focus: Becky Talks Marmalade
Right now, in our walk-in refer at the farm; there are 10, 20 gallon containers on carts filled with steaming Meyer lemon rind and 5 gallon buckets filled with their juice. After they’ve cooled (tomorrow) these empty halves will be…
Posted in Blog, Newsletter Tagged with: made from hand, marmalade, meyer lemon marmalade, Organic, pectin, strawberry blood orange marmalade
Week of January 17th 2011
On Tuesday the 11th, I visited with Rebecca Klein of Lafayette who is creating a wonderful new vision for CSAs and for connecting schools and churches with local farmers for their food needs. Her CSA site is located at Temple Isaiah in Lafayette.
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: advisory committee, Apples, Clementine, CSA, Frog Hollow Farm pears, Hass Avocados, Kiwi, Mandarins, Navel Oranges, Organic, Pink Lady, warren pear
