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Fruit & News of the Week: June 19 2017

This Week’s Fruit: Santa Rosa Plums Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Santa Rose plums are famous for their beautiful dark skin, yellow flesh and are delicious eaten fresh or canned. This variety was developed by Luther Burbank in, you guessed

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Fruit of the Week: May 29, 2017

This week’s fruit: Rainier Cherries Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A well-known variety, the Rainier is the only white cherry we grow. Plump, delicious and with an extremely sweet creamy flesh, they’re best eaten out of hand. Their distinctive flavor

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Farm Focus: An Ode to Apricots – “Moons of the Faithful”

Mago with Apricots

This week marks a special time for Frog Hollow Farm CSA. Today, we welcome our first apricots of the season in our CSA boxes – Kettleman Apricots! It’s a beautiful time, the beginning of the stone fruit season – the

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