Farm Happenings at Heritage Family Gardens
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Farm Happenings at Heritage Family Gardens

Summer is winding down... already

Posted on August 24th, 2023
Just when everything starts coming on strong, our summer season starts winding down! Only 4 weeks left for this season. We're so grateful for this Farm Share, and especially for you, our Shareholders, which makes all this even possible. If we were standard vegetable farmers growing more conventiona1 read more »

Tomatoes! Finally!!

Posted on August 14th, 2023
We have 6 weeks left of our summer season and finally the tomatoes are coming on strong! We planted over 300 tomato plants so we're anticipating a lot of tomatoes in the coming weeks!! Thankfully we've not struggled with the disease issues that we had last year! If you're interested in bulk produce1 read more »

It’s basil season - Yum!

Posted on August 11th, 2023
Oh, this smells sooooo good! I love when I need to go harvest the kale or spinach because it’s right by the basil and it smells so delicious just to walk by it. Basil season doesn’t last long because they like the warm nights… once it starts cooling off too much in the fall, they1 read more »

Onion Harvest

Posted on August 4th, 2023
Did you know, onions grow nice and tall with their straight green stalks and then, over a fairly short period of time, the stalks all fall over. This is how you know that they're ready for curing. We've had the early onions so far this season with the stalks still attached, but we've noticed that s1 read more »