A perfect peach, soft and sweet and dripping, can make your day. A perfect peach every day can make your month. Imagine a stone fruit season – stretching from late-April to September – with an unen...
One of our customers recently asked us if we add wax to our fruit before we sell it. Farmer Al has never added wax to our fruit. But that got us wondering why farmers would use wax in the first pla...
When you think of compost, you probably imagine shovels of rich, dark humus teeming with nutrients and earthworms. But did you know that our orchard team also uses compost in a “tea” that they spr...
Our trees have trained us to live in the moment and in the future, all in the same breath. In January, we’re looking forward to late April or early May – that’s when our Apache apricots will be re...
The luscious peach you savor on a hot summer day traces its success to fall and winter nights when the temperature drops below 45 degrees.
Our stone fruit trees – peaches, nectarines, apricots, ...
In farming, water can’t do its job when it’s sitting on top of the soil. And it can’t do its job when it’s running off the land into the ocean. It can only do its job when soil can absorb it. And ...
Blood oranges take you by surprise every time you cut one open. Even the name makes you sit up and wonder. Sometimes their flesh is pure red; sometimes, it’s orange with random red streaks. Go ahea...
There was a break in the rain in early December and we took the opportunity to plant some cover crops in the moist soil.
At Frog Hollow Farm, we let whatever is in the seedbed flourish as cover cr...
