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By Jeff Main of Good Humus Produce, courtesy of Capay Valley Farm Shop It seems like a long time since I’ve had a chance to touch bases with all of you, as a matter of fact, it has been a long time. So much has changed on the farm and so much has stayed the [...]
A Pear A Day Keeps Sickness at Bay By Rebecca Taggart Apples have gotten such a good rap (“an apple a day keeps the doctor away”) that the closely-related pear, equally nutritious, should have its own aphorism: “A pear a day keeps sickness at bay.” But pears are often overlooked as a handy snack. Both [...]
By Paul Muller of Full Belly Farm, courtesy of Capay Valley Farm Shop The farm is sliding into the rhythm of a welcome fall. Last week’s rain was a signal to slow down, breathe deeply, and remember crisp, clean October color. Damp air permeated even the driest of spaces and the moisture washed everything clean. The [...]
In foodie author Michael Pollan’s first book Second Nature, he rethinks our relationship with nature. He tries to keep up with his lawn, battles a contrary woodchuck, and, upon discovering an abandoned town covered in forest growth, observes with great poignancy how nature abhors a vacuum. Thankfully Mr. Pollan became a writer and not a [...]
Stop! Just stop what you are doing, and put down your tools, be they gardening trowels or smart phones. It is time to take a break from the weeding, shoveling, organizing, filing, coding, and analyzing and get some fresh country air! Harvest time is here for farms from California to the New York Island. Late [...]
Gung Hei Fat Choy! (Literally “Congratulations and be prosperous!”) Happy Year of the Tiger! Chinese New Year is a spring celebration, sometimes called Spring Festival, and is the most important holiday on the Chinese calendar. It is held after the fall harvest and before the start of the spring planting season and brings hopes for [...]
Just as plants employ the cycle of photosynthesis and respiration to convert light, air, and water into energy and back again into CO2, so go the cycles of farming seasons. Seed to sprout to fruit to compost to soil to seeds again. Every culture’s agricultural calendar takes into account times of abundance and times for [...]
Stone fruit season is here, the peaches, plums, apricots, and cherries will be rolling into fruit cases for the next few months. First to the table are the fruits from orchards in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Then each region, in a procession from Central Valley toward the Pacific Coast, will begin popping out fruit. Here [...]
Here at The FruitGuys we work with fruit all week, but we still love it on the weekends. For those who haven’t tried it we’d like to recommend a U-Pick outing. East Coast residents have incorporated apple picking into their fall activities for generations. With the growing interest in local farming, the varieties of “agri-tourism” [...]
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