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Fruit of the Week Stella Cherries Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Stella cherries are dark almost to the point of being black and slightly smaller than the big, bold Bing.These are the last variety of cherry for the season. Crimson…
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Fruit & News of the Week: June 5th 2017
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: Apples, apricots, bay area fruit CSA, California, californica grown, Community, eating local, eating seasonal, farming, Frog Hollow Farm, fruit, fruit csa, happy child csa, healthy eating, Nectarines, organic csa, organic farm, Organic Farming, Organic fruit, peaches, stone fruit, summer, tangeringes, winter
Fruit & News of the Week: May 22, 2017
This week’s fruit: Brooks Cherries Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA Brooks Cherries are the total package. Beautiful deep red color, perfect tart/sweet balance & great texture! Rainier Cherries Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA A well-known variety, the Rainier is the…
Posted in Newsletter Tagged with: Bay Area, Bay Area CSA, bay area farming, brooks cherries, california grown, cherries, cherry season, community supported agriculture, CSA, east bay, farming, Fuji apples, Hass Avocados, norcal faming, Organic Farming, pixie tangerines, rainier cherries, south bay, summer
Farm Focus: Tomatoes!
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…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: californ, canning, conzerve, greenhouse, ketchup, Organic Farming, pruning, saucing tomatoes, summer, tomatoes, vegetable farming, vermi-compost
Farm Focus: Early Summer Crops
The beauty of a Community Supported Agriculture program is the connection forged between the farm and our community of supporters. We are in this together and, while we are all affected when a crop suffers, we also reap the rewards…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: apricots, Bay Area, Bay Area CSA, California, canning, cherries, Climate Change, Community, Compost, crop report, CSA, east bay, eating local, eating seasonal, farm, farm to table, farming, Plums, Pluots, stone fruit, summer, tomatoes
Farm Focus: The Day in the Life of a Vegetable Farmer…
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…
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
