Healthy Hearts Institute

Garlic is one of our favorite crops to plant at the farm. It requires minimal maintenance and naturally repels most pests. Garlic grows best in fertile and loose soil. In around seven or eight months, it will be time to harvest!

Garlic Health Benefits: Boosts immunity, works as an anti-inflammatory, improves cardiovascular health, lowers cholesterol, anti-fungal properties, better hair and skin, helps fend off common ailments, high blood pressure, tick bites, ringworm, and athlete’s foot, to name a few.

We harvested our first carrots. A carrot is a root vegetable, usually orange in color, though purple, red, black , white, and yellow varieties exist. Carrots are a domesticated form of the wild carrot, Daucus carota, native to Europe and southwestern Asia. Carrots were originally white or purple. Then a yellow carrot appeared through mutation and the familiar orange carrot was bred from it. There are more than 100 species. The name “carrot” comes from the Greek word “karoton.” The beta-carotene that is found in carrots was actually named for the carrot itself.

This has been a great growing season for HHI! Soon, we will be terminating our crops and preparing for the next crop season. You can still enjoy summer fruits and vegetables during the winter months. Try drying, canning, pickling, and freezing them from your kitchen to last all year. There are many Youtube influencing videos to walk you through the steps. We still have tons of tomatoes, sweet peppers, and hot peppers at the farm.

First harvested beets. Did you know that beets contain nitrates, which may help increase blood flow to the brain, improve cognitive function and possibly reduce the risk of dementia.