This happens every year – all of the sudden the hillside and mountains are bright with fall foliage. One week we’re wondering when the colors will pop. The next, we’re marveling at the colors. Transitions are like that. So much quietly shifting behind the scenes, under the bark, at the roots, within each leaf. We […]
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After another season of heavy rains and a storm ripping through roads, the Farm Stand is closed until further notice. Both town roads leading to Good Heart were severely damaged, and there is currently one-lane traffic from only one direction. We’re so grateful to the Worcester town road crews for all their work. Right now, it’s
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Hello long time customers and friends! Wow, 2023 was quite a year. Navigating the challenging weather alongside behind-the-scenes shifts has led us to reshape some components of how we grow and distribute food to our loving community members. We’re deeply grateful for all the support we’ve received from you and want to continue to offer fresh
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It’s Earth Week! What’s the best way to celebrate? Eating local organic food. Here are three ways organic farming and eating local supports the environment: Organic Farming Builds Healthy Soils Soil is the foundation of nutritious and delicious food, but more than that, soil can capture carbon from the atmosphere, and increase resilience in times
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“Think globally, act locally.” Wendell Berry These words hung on the walls of the Farmers’ Diner in Barre, back when I was in high school. It’s been over a decade since the Farmers’ Diner closed, but those words — think globally, act locally — are as important as ever. Between climate change, the pandemic, and
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It’s a watermelon, it’s a radish…it’s a watermelon radish! And it’s also a superhero of the vegetable world. What makes it so? Well, just take a look: In late winter, when other storage crops are beginning to get soft, the watermelon radish holds firm. It’s bright pink center splashes across the plate. Its subtle
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Guess what? Edge is sowing the first tomato seeds of the year today! While it will still be quite some time before we slice into a Rose de Berne (my all around favorite tomato), the simple act of planting seeds brings a new kind of energy. It’s as if I can feel the season shifting
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At the end of 2021, Good Heart Farmstead became Real Organic Certified. Over the past handful of years, national organic standards have been watered down to make it easier for “Big Ag” corporations to be labeled organic. The result: Hydroponic farms where the land is covered in plastic and plants are grown without soil; and
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For the past month, folks have been asking us when they can sign up for the 2022 Full Season Share. And the answer is… October 18th! We’ve never had so many people ask us about the Full Season Share, and we’re psyched to open it up again in a couple weeks. This is the only time
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Last week we harvested giant cabbages: Waylon helped, too. Check out this video of him harvesting them. These will become sauerkraut and curry kraut (our favorite twist on the classic ferment) and will be part of the Fall Harvest CSA. Because sometimes you want a cabbage and sometimes you want a jar of farm-made kraut to pop
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