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Hungry Hollow Happenings: August 2024
Hungry Hollow Happenings: August 2024

July was a record-breaking month of a heat spell for us in Yolo County. We’re used to triple digit summer temperatures, but not for this long of a stretch (or this high of temps!). Through that heat, we’ve been harvesting tomatoes for about 65 days now! We both can’t believe it’s been that long and are also sure it’s been longer (shouldn’t the season be almost over by now?).

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Hungry Hollow Happenings: May 2024
Hungry Hollow Happenings: May 2024

Planting season is a frenzied season. There is a short window in which we need to “terminate” our cover crops – we talked about that in the last letter – and prepare the field to be planted anew in “cash” crops. Getting all the beds in all the fields prepared at once is tricky (or, rather, impossible). We have a limited number of tractors and tractor drivers, and a seemingly unlimited amount of work to get done in what feels like a very limited amount of time.

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Easy Homemade Watermelon Slushy
Easy Homemade Watermelon Slushy

Watermelon slushies are a fantastic way to “beat the heat,” so to speak. They are so refreshing you may just find yourself “enjoying” the heat.

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Hungry Hollow Happenings: Early Spring
Hungry Hollow Happenings: Early Spring

Early summer on the farm is a whirlwind of “organized chaos.”

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