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  Cultivating Wellness

  You can tell it’s a Thursday when a certain someone pops her head into the farm office with the warmest of greetings, “Hello beautiful, hello wonderful.” It’s Elena Velez, a longtime healthcare interpreter and now wellness trainer, who has come to lead Frog Hollow Farm employees in her Community Restorative...

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  Health Benefits of Dried Fruit

  A dried piece of fruit is only as good as the fruit you start with. And with 25 years drying and 45+ years growing experience, we’re pretty proud of ours. The tradition of drying fruit dates all the way back to 4000 BC in Mesopotamia. For thousands of years, cultures...

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  A Team that Lifts Each Other Up

  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 many sounds of the daily hustle, bustle, and shuffle here. There’s an...

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  Handmade Pumpkin Pie With Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice

  Cinderella’s fairy godmother may have worked her magic to turn that pumpkin into something fit for a royal ball. But in our case, the pumpkin IS the magic. A sugar pie isn’t like a carving pumpkin. It’s smaller and sweeter, and grows on beautiful sprawling vines in our garden. Sugar...

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  11 Pear Recipes You’ve Never Considered

  From popsicles to sandwiches to bruschetta to soups! There’s no limit to what you can do with pears. And we’re only at the  beginning of the season. There’s nothing quite like eating a  perfectly-ripe Warren pear out of hand. But if you’re looking for additional ways to enjoy the best of what...

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  Pruning: The Art of Renewal

  Much like puppies, fruit trees must be trained from the beginning if you want them to behave. How you prune a tree in its first year determines so much of its future life. Then, how you prune it each fall and winter determines how sweet the next summer’s fruit will...

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  What Makes Burroughs Family Farms Organic Almond Butter So Good?

  We not only sell our own fruit and pantry items but also products from select producers in CA. We're intentional about everything we carry in our shop and make sure the producers with whom we partner care as much about how they grow or make their products as we do. Get...

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  Community Grains: Grown with Integrity

  The wheat industry is suffering. Industrial farming has transformed a once nutritious and varied type of grain into something overly processed and flavorless. Follow that with a lack of transparency about how grain is farmed, plus way fewer varieties grown and heavy herbicide and glyphosate use, and what you get...

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  A Toast to our Roasted Almonds!

  Did you know almonds aren’t botanically considered nuts? They’re stone fruit! Walk up to an almond tree in the summertime and see fuzzy little fruit on the branch—like a little green peach. Only, with almonds, we’re not interested in the fleshy part (which, for almonds, we call a “hull”). We...

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  Flying to the Rescue of Our Monarch Neighbors

  A few weeks back, we planted about 170 plants along an orchard row. These aren’t just any plants. They’ll provide habitat for western Monarch butterflies! The western Monarch has experienced a population decline of more than 99% since the 1980s. That’s from about 4.5 million down to just 30,000 counted...