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Fruit & News of the Week: September 11th 2017

This Week’s Fruit: August Flame Peaches Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA The Autumn Flame brings a truly nostalgic peach sweetness. It is naturally more firm, but softens beautifully if aged properly on the kitchen counter. It becomes almost as meltingly

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Farm Fucus: Our Wheat Is In!

Our Wheat Is In!   Rachel, our farm assistant, has been busy since her arrival in May researching how to handle processing the 16 acres of wheat we’ve grown. Since this is our first foray into wheat, we decided to

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Farm Focus: Wheat at Frog Hollow

Though fruit is our main focus, Frog Hollow is always interested in experimenting in new agricultural and culinary endeavours that will enhance our offerings of delicious foods.  Our latest experiment is currently about 5 inches tall and bright green.  On

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Farm Focus: Diversification Expansion at Frog Hollow

November and December are very important months on our farm. Nourishing trees with compost during the winter months is just as imperative as the work we do in the spring and summer months. The fall and winter, however, do provide

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Fruit & News of the Week: September 5th

THIS WEEK’S FRUIT:  Autumn Flame Peach Frog Hollow Farm, Brentwood, CA The Autumn Flame brings the peach harvest to a close with a truly nostalgic peach sweetness. The Autumn Flame is naturally more firm, but softens beautifully if aged properly

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