Growing Heart Farm
25 Jeans Drive, Pawling, NY, 12564
About
Growing Heart Farm is a small, diversified vegetable & herb farm specializing in year-round greens production in the Harlem Valley. We believe that the healthiest food comes from the healthiest ecologies, starting with the soil. We intensively rotate our crops, use cover crop, and remineralize our soils, replenishing the nutrients and biology each year. It’s our goal to grow the best-tasting and most nutritious vegetables we can using sustainable methods
Products
Radish, Shallots, Potatoes, Carrots, Herbs, Flowers, Sow Peas, Egg Plants, Bulb Fennel, Snap Peas, Onions, Tomatoes, Parsley, Peppers, Cherries, Green Beans, Turnip
Farming Practices
We follow a bottom-up, soil-based approach to agriculture, using practices that help our soils hold nutrients and build healthy biology, resulting in resilient plants and nutritious vegetables.
Nothing would get done around here without microbiology! We try to cultivate a healthy soil biome by inoculating crops with beneficial bacteria and limiting tillage, favoring hand tools, and using a walk-behind, two-wheel tractor which is lighter on the soil.We plant cover crops like buckwheat between crop rotations and to keep living roots in the soil when ground is out of production. We use a mix of grasses and legumes whose deep, intricate root systems prevent erosion and the leaching of nutrients into waterways. We farm in an area called The Great Swamp, so it is critical that the minerals so necessary to the production of healthy plants, yet so destructive to aquatic ecosystems in concentration, stay locked in our soils