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...
Frog Hollow Farm seeks out exceptional products from local farms to accompany our fruit and gift sets. We’re proud to partner with Bellwether Farms – founded in the Bay Area in 1986 – and share ...
Farmer Al can sum up the lifecycle of wood on the farm in just three words: Carbon is life.
A tree’s leaves draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, spin it into sugar, and use it to build wood...
We’re ruled by technology these days, and it takes a lot to impress us, yet the fluttering wings of a monarch butterfly have the power to stop us in our tracks. When was the last time you saw a We...
“Little by little.”
Talk with Bill Peixoto of Billy Bob Orchards and you’ll hear that phrase again and again.
Little by little, he and his brother Bob rebuilt their father’s Watsonville, CA a...
