Frog Hollow Farm Frog Hollow Farm Frog Hollow Farm is an organic farm in the delta region of San Francisco Bay, behind the Berkeley Hills, within sight of the Altamont wind farms. Frog Hollow grows the best organic peaches in the world. Frog Hollow's peaches can be found at the best restaurants in the Bay Area, and have been served at the White House. The workers take good care of the orchards, so Al appreciates their value to the farm. Some of the workers live on the farm in trailers near Highway 4, the main two-lane road between San Francisco and the Port of Stockton.
Big trucks rumble past at all hours.
Although this is standard accommodation for immigrant Mexican farm workers, Al wanted to build something better for the workers. When Al and Becky heard about straw-bale construction, they knew immediately they wanted to build with straw at Frog Hollow. The workers were skeptical about this house of straw, and thought Farmer Al might be a little mad, but they enjoyed working on the new cottage. The ground was staked out in a large flat area between the orchards and the highway. The permit was granted the day before the workshop, and the slab was finished in the gray of the early evening.