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Farm Happenings at Heritage Family Gardens

Guinea Fowl: Our Pest Crusaders

Posted on June 21st, 2019
Look at our cute little guinea! They're so cute as keets (baby guinea) yet they grow into very unusual looking birds. read more »

Summer Week 4 and we're waiting on the heat!

Posted on June 13th, 2019
I never thought I would ever say that I'm ready for it to get hot but I just might be.  The cooler temperatures have been nice on one hand, but we're definitely noticing a difference in the speed of growth of our warm-loving crops like tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, etc.  Even ou1 read more »

Summer Week 3

Posted on June 7th, 2019
We've had some very hungry caterpillars in Ernie (one of our hoophouses).  The children's book is cute (Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar), but in really life, it's such a nuisance.  The last cold snap, we closed up Ernie to protect the crops from a potential frost, and that raised1 read more »

Summer Shares Week #2

Posted on May 31st, 2019
And we're off!  Summer Shares are underway! For those that are our bi-weekly shareholders, this is your first week of shares for the summer. We're excited to see our returning shareholders again and to meet our new shareholders.  New shareholders, if you're having a hard time finding your1 read more »

First week of summer shares!

Posted on May 24th, 2019
Welcome to the 2019 summer season! We’re excited to see our returning shareholders again and to meet our new shareholders. For new shareholders, if you’re having a hard time finding your pickup location, please call/text Stacey (435-219-8670) for more detailed directions. As far as farm1 read more »

Farm Happenings for May 22, 2019

Posted on May 18th, 2019
This is the final week of the Spring Greens share!  Thanks so much for joining us on this inaugural adventure of gardening and producing so early in the year.  Mason and I have learned a lot about spring gardening this year and we're excited to apply what we learn in future years and seas1 read more »

Farm Happenings for May 15, 2019

Posted on May 11th, 2019
Well, well, time is flying! We've only got 2 more weeks left of our Spring Greens share before rolling into our Summer shares.  The temps are warming up and some of our cool season crops are starting to go to seed already.  We enjoyed Bok Choy blossoms in our salad for lunch today and the1 read more »

Swimming in Spring Greens

Posted on May 4th, 2019
It’s week #2 of our Spring Greens season and we’re swimming in green! We’re really excited because we’ve as yet to produce so much so early in the year... our hoophouses make all the difference with season extension!   In other farm news, we have 4 bee hives being deliv1 read more »

Farm Happenings for May 1, 2019

Posted on April 27th, 2019
Happy Spring!  And now we can truly celebrate the beautiful Spring we've enjoyed by eating right along with the season.  There's lots of green goodness to look forward to in the coming weeks and some other colors in there too!   Our hoophouse, Ernie, is practically bursting at t1 read more »