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Farm Focus: Barn Owl Boxes

At Frog Hollow Farm, we’ve become hooked on owl boxes.  These are wooden homes, built specifically to house the magical and mysterious Barn Owls and their owlets.  We are constructing and mounting owl boxes at the farm for two main

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Fruit & News of the Week: August 21, 2017

This week’s fruit: Cal Red Peaches 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

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Farm Focus: A Note from Farmer Kristin

Here are Frog Hollow, we are very happy to be working with NRCS for a 4th year in a row, planting trees, shrubs and 50 total acres of conservation cover crop.  NRCS stand for the National Resource Conservation Service, a

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Fruit and News: Week of March 4th 2013

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Gopher Damage and This Week’s Varieties This Week’s Fruit Hass Avocados Stehly Farms Organics, Valley Center, CA Creamy in texture, nutty in flavor, with a small to medium seed. The Hass skin is easy to peel and darkens from green

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  • Recipe: Pork Chops with Apples and Onions

    Pork Chops with Apples and Onions
    via Martha Stewart

     
    Ingredients:
    6 bone-in pork chops (loin or shoulder), cut 3/4 inch thick
    Coarse salt and fres…

  • Farm Focus: The Buzz with Bees

    Spring is synonymous with blooming flowers and where there are blooming flowers there are bees! And while most people think  of European honey bees, we  w…

  • Fruit & News of the Week: April 9, 2018

    This Week’s Fruit:
    Minneloa Tangelos
    Twin Girls Farm, Dinuba, CA
    The Tangelo is a cross between a mandarin and grapefruit. Its skin is easy to peel and its f…

  • Recipe: DIY Orange Soda

    Via Food52

    Ingredients:

    4 oranges
    1 lime
    1 cup granulated sugar
    Lemon lime seltzer water

    Method:

    Zest the oranges and the lime and add all o…

  • Farm Focus: Jim Churchill of Churchill-Brenneis Orchard

    Jim of Churchill-Brenneis Orchard, never imagined himself becoming a farmer, though he grew up walking through friends orchards on weekend trips from LA. His pa…