I’ve been feeling down since last week’s IPCC climate report came out (here’s a 3 bullet summary from NPR). Okay, “down” isn’t the right word—more like anxious, sad, angry, worried. I wonder sometimes how much our little farm can do to help solve the climate crisis and injustices of the world. But then I think of …
By the time mesclun mix reaches your plate, it’s been triple-washed, spun dry, and bagged. But before all that, it starts out as seeds in soil. Sprinklers cool and moisten the tender lettuce leaves on hot days. Roots hold the plants in soil through days of rain. And about a month after the seeds first …
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It’s flower season here at the farm. We don’t actually sell flowers — while they’re included as a free PYO perk for our CSA Members, the role flowers play at Good Heart is one of pollination and beauty. The mix of cultivated and wild flowers on the farm provide homes and food for pollinators like …
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” ~Martin Luther King, Jr. As we celebrate MLK Day, I want to offer you a seed of joy. I know there are so many reasons to feel otherwise. Climate change and food insecurity alone — both of which are social …
I typically write about vegetables here, but Waylon’s birthday is just as central to Good Heart as any harvest. In 2013, the year we started the CSA, Edge lovingly dubbed Waylon our best crop. That year we raised chickens, pigs, turkeys, and sheep. Chicken slaughter day was a week before Waylon’s birth, and I spent …
In 2013 we named our farm Good Heart Farmstead with a nod to the soil. You see, when soil is “in good heart” it means that it’s alive and healthy. And of course, we know that when people are in good heart, they’re healthy and happy. Through our time spent working on farms, attending conferences, …
Well, we made it a good 5 years without one, but today we enter a whole new era of possibility with a tractor. And Waylon is super excited about it. We think you’ll be excited too, as the tractor means plowing new plots for perennial berries, opening up space for sweet potatoes, and even grading …
Hello neighbors, First, we want to thank everyone who has been either directly or indirectly part of Good Heart Farmstead this year, from our members to neighbors, to the wonderful folks at the Worcester Community Kitchen. We are so blessed to live in a community where people genuinely care about each other and come together …
We do hope you’ll join us for another season of local food & local nourishment! And until then, we wish you a very merry winter.
CSA Pick-up June 27 & 30 The gardens are growing their way to the summer tipping point: the first cucumber harvest was Thursday, green tomatoes are populating in the greenhouse, the squash plants are soaking up the summer heat, and everything is so thankful for the recent rain! Of course it helps that it is …