If you spend any time around the fruit packing shed on the farm, you’ll hear the beeps of the forklift coming around the corners, making sure people know to move out of the way. It’s one of the m...
Have you ever tried an olive right off the tree? It’s terribly bitter. So unpleasant, in fact, that it makes you wonder how it ever occurred to someone to make it into something consumable. How did...
At Frog Hollow, we’re thinking about nutrients throughout each tree’s life: from what it needs when it’s a tiny baby, all the way into adolescence and adulthood—the maintenance required, the care f...
Terroir is the special quality and taste that food has because of where it was grown. “Farmers the world over know this about their soil,” says Farmer Al. “It’s always going to give special charact...
Writing about the health benefits of peaches, I could focus on so many things. I could tell you that one medium sized peach has about 60 calories, 14 grams of carbohydrates, 17% of your daily value...
Although the land in Brentwood, California is some of the most fertile in the country, when Farmer Al began on a 13 acre plot here in 1976, much of the soil had been depleted by monoculture. That m...
1 in 4 California households with children don’t have enough food to eat. Supporting SB 364, School Meals For All, can make sure that the 2,000,000 food insecure children in CA will have guaranteed...
This fall we have been blessed by a woman named Elena Velez, who has been conducting weekly health and wellness classes for our field and packing shed crews - she calls the work “CRT” or “Restorati...
