Heritage's Angels

Members of the box club volunteer as field hands to cut okra and flowers and pick peas...temperature 99 degrees!!!!

Our annual inspection of our farm by USDA and QCS to maintain organic certification took place yesterday and as usual we passed the inspection with flying colors. This is our 20th year of certification! First farm in Georgia to be certified!

Olive oil and high hopes

Hi there! 1/4 of a dropper of olive oil has been added to each corn ear in the garden to hopefully prevent ear worms. Just an experiement but we sure hope it works! Our corn will be ready in about 3 weeks. We are still harvesting peas, okra, cucumbers, basil and tomatoes. We're saving all our big green peppers so they will turn red. They're just beginning to get a tinge of red on them!
Wishing you all a happy week!

Flowers and Fun!

At Heritage, we plant flowers not just for beauty but to attract beneficial insects and also to provide nectar for our honey bees!

Shirley's great grandsons had a blast "working"(so they say) on the farm Monday. They took a break to enjoy some yummy organic lemonade and grapes!

Harvesting in the Heat

We are currently harvesting broccoli leaves, tomatoes, okra, peas, kale, zucchini, red potatoes, basil, daikon, cucumbers, and green peppers. The first field of corn is over now but the second field planted with corn and pumpkins interspersed will be ready in the next few months. Butternut squash will be ready then too! This heat is brutal and unfortunately it never gets too hot for weeds!!

New home for the babies

We moved the baby chickens out of the brooder into their larger home yesterday. My how they have grown! One was rolling around in the dirt, so excited to be in larger quarters.

We had to pull out the beach umbrella to help shade the big girls in the chicken tractor but they sure love eating that pasture grass!

Hope you have a blessed day!

Heritage Farm Day 2011

Despite the heat, we had an absolutely great day! Awesome turnout, fun hayrides, local honey, pick your own veggies and more! We missed those that couldn't make it and sincerely thank the ones who were able to drop by. We love serving you and hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did! Below are some of our favorites from the day but you can see them all by visiting us on Facebook.

These are two of our volunteers who ran the registration table for us! Thank you Joan and Bob!

Charlotte and Marissa ran the lemonade stand

Children loved holding the biddies

The cows loved us coming to visit...

Pat taught the children about worms and composting and "oversaw" the biddie petting.

Hayrides were so much fun!

The Farmer's Market was a hit too!

Excitement

We are very excited about Farm Day tomorrow. Can't wait to see you all there! Don't worry, we will be sure and put up some pics after.
Here is one of Shirley and her great grandsons, Grady and Davis, moving the chicken tractor so the "girls" could enjoy some fresh grass for an hour or two.