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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
Fruit & News of the Week: March 27th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Sanguinelli Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Sanguinelli is the latest variety of our blood oranges. The flesh is sweet and ranges in color from orange with dark red streaking to a dark red maroon. Sanguinellis…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: apple, apricots, Avocado, bees, Blood Orange, bravocado, Brentwood, cherries, Chiechi Farm, fall off, flavor kings, Frog Hollow Farm, fruit, fruit set report, fuji, hass, Hayward, Kiwi, linden, Lindsay, Live Oak, mildew spores, Navel, Olson Organics, orange, peaches, pears, Pink Lady, plum, Pluots, pollinate, pruning, rain, ruby grapefruit, san diego, sanguinelli, smit farm, Soil Fertility, soil moisture, sundance, vigor, warrens, wet weather
Fruit & News of the Week: March 20th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Sanguinelli Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Sanguinelli is the latest variety of our blood oranges. The flesh is sweet and ranges in color from orange with dark red streaking to a dark red maroon. Sanguinellis…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: apple, bees, Blood Orange, bloom, bravocado, Brentwood, Food, Frog Hollow Farm, fuji, grass, hass avocado, health, Honey, linden, Lindsay, Navel Orange, Olson Organics, peaches, petals, Pink Lady, planting, pruning, rain, ruby grapefruit, san diego, sanguinelli, smit farm, spring, sundance
Fruit & News of the Week: March 6th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Moro Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Moros have a deep red flesh and tart flavor with a rind that tends to blush into hues of red. The Moro is a wonderful orange for juicing or cooking…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: apricots, beauty, bees, blooming, bravocado, Brentwood, cuyama farm, energy, Frog Hollow Farm, fuji apple, grass, Hass Avocados, health, Honey, hope, ladders, life, linden, Lindsay, Moro blood orange, Navel Orange, new cuyama, Olson Organics, pink lady apple, planting, Plums, Pluots, pruning, san diego, skeletal, spring, transformation, tree team
Farm Focus: Pruning Time & Spring Stroll Event
It’s Pruning Time! Winter on the farm is far from uneventful. Trees may be dormant, but our teams are far from it. Preparation and work during winter sets the tone for the success of our summer stone fruit. As mentioned…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: balance, bloom, branches, buds, chain saw, comb, Compost, compost tea, cut, dormant, energy, event, fruit, Honey, honeybee hive, orchard, pollinator, pruning, spring stroll, stone fruit, sunlight, team leader, tree team, winter
