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A Note from Farmer Kristin: A day in the life of a veggie farmer… As I show up to the farm the air is cold and crisp. It’s the first blue sky I’ve seen at the farm for several days…
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Farm Focus: The Day in the Life of a Vegetable Farmer…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: animals, blue sky, brassica leaf, broccoli, chickens, construction, evaporation, germinate, Gophers, greenhouse, hawks, heat mats, irrigation, mud, munched, pepper, planting, pruning, purple cabbage, rabbits, rain, seed orders, seeds, striped green tomato, summer, summer vegetables, tomato, vegetable farmer, white fabric
Fruit & News of the Week: January 16th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Tarocco Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A beautiful orange to deep red flesh is revealed when you slice open a Tarocco. The flesh of the blood orange is firmer and more dense than an orange…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: accumulations, aeration, Brentwood, chichi farm, clay loam soil, Clementine Mandarins, compact, compaction, cuyama farm, dangerous, draught, Frog Hollow Farm, Fuerte Avocado, Fuji apples, Hayward Kiwis, homegrown organic farm, ladders, Live Oak, microbe, moisture, muddy, Navel Oranges, new cuyama, nutrient cycling, orchard, pink lady apples, porterville, pruning, rain, slippery, soggy, soil, storms, tarocco blood oranges, Temecula, Twin Girls Farm, water holding capacity, water penetration, wet, Yettem
Fruit & News of the Week: January 9th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Tarocco Blood Oranges Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A beautiful orange to deep red flesh is revealed when you slice open a Tarocco. The flesh of the blood orange is firmer and more dense than an orange…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: Blood Orange, blood oranges, Brentwood, Chiechi Farm, Clementine Mandarins, cuyama farm, Eco Farm, farm worker housing area, farmers market, Frog Hollow Farm, Fuerte Avocado, fuji apple, gravel, gutters, Hayward Kiwi, homegrown organic farm, Lindsay, Live Oak, Navel Orange, new cuyama, New Year, olsen organics, pink lady apples, porterville, rain, SF Ferry Building Farmers Market, storm, tarocco, Temecula, Twin Girls Farm, van, wind, Yettem
Fruit & News of the Week: December 12th
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: Abounding Harvest, berms, biological life, broccoli, calcium, cauliflower, Chiechi Farm, compaction, Compost, cuyama farm, disc, drip irrigation, Drought, fungal, fuyu, garlic, germinated, greenhouse, Hamilton Growers, hand weeded, Hayward Kiwis, hoes, kale, lettuce, micronutrients, no till, olsen organics, onions, Owari Satsuma Mandarins, oyster shell flour, Peppers, permanent beds, persimmons, pest pressures, pomegranates, potassium, rain, rakes, ridger, soil structure, sulphur, sulphur potash, tomatoes, underground ecosystems, vegetable growing, winter vegetables
Fruit & News of the Week: October 17th
THIS WEEK’S FRUIT: Shinko Asian Pears Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA The Shinko has a round shape which is slightly flattened. The skin is bronze with brown russeting and its juicy, creamy white flesh has a subtly rich flavor. One…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: apple, Asian, clay, flavor profile, fuji, ground team, ladders, loam, olive harvest, Pear, Pomegranate, pruning, rain, shears, shinko, snow, sticky, tree team, wait, warren, wind
