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Farm Happenings at Heritage Family Gardens

Summer Extended Week 3 - Fall, here we come!

Posted on September 13th, 2019
Fall is just around the corner and the temps are dropping! Earlier this week we covered over all the basil in the garden to make sure we didn't lose it.  Basil is very tender and is usually the first crop to succumb to the chillier evenings. We have frost fabric and our hoophouses to help us k1 read more »

Summer Extended Week 2 - Lots of excitement on the horizon!

Posted on September 6th, 2019
The garden is finally in full production! The summer squash, tomatoes, peppers, and onions are abundant! We're holding back on carrots, beets, turnips and other crops so we can save them for the Fall shares.  In other exciting news, Local University is ready!! There is much more coming but our1 read more »

Summer Week 13 - Sharing our Farm

Posted on August 16th, 2019
This has been a fun week for many reasons. We have a camp site on our land through a site called Hip Camp, where people can come and camp at a makeshift campsite in our pasture area. We had some campers come last week and choose to stay a while. They're a nice couple traveling the country together1 read more »

Summer week 12: TOMATOES!!

Posted on August 9th, 2019
We've got only 3 weeks left of our regular summer season and finally the tomatoes are here! We've got over 500 tomato plants out in the garden so we're anticipating a lot of tomatoes in the coming weeks!! If you haven't already signed up for our summer extended season (weekly for the whole month of1 read more »

Summer Week 11 Making good progress...

Posted on August 2nd, 2019
Howdy friends! Time is flying and it's already week 11 of our summer season.  We have a number of new crops available this week and many more to look forward to in future weeks including tomatoes (we are so close!!), Green beans, eggplant and corn.  Even as we're trying to do all we can t1 read more »

Summer Week 10

Posted on July 26th, 2019
Our summer season is winding down! Only 4 weeks left for this season and then we start the summer extended season through the month of  September. We're so grateful for CSA and especially for you, our Shareholders, which makes all this even possible. If we were standard vegetable farmers growi1 read more »

Here we grow!

Posted on July 19th, 2019
It's week #9 and it's going to be a delicious week. read more »

Speeding Into Summer!

Posted on July 12th, 2019
Hi! Welcome to Week 8! Here's a little about what's been going on here at the farm. Farming is an ebb and flow type of work environment and we're definitely in the flow part of that! We're battling some insect pests, the squash bugs especially! We've got the kids helping us pick squash bugs and egg1 read more »