Heart and Soil Farm NS

07/05/2025

Market prep with my best friend + country music + sunshine = perfect Saturday morning.

Our CSA program starts soon and the market at Eli+Trix will be back tomorrow from 9am to 1pm. Loads of new items, fresh baked goods, small batch dog treats, sea salt blends and farm fresh produce will be waiting for you.

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07/05/2025

The bubble is prettiest at night..

07/04/2025

It’s CSA tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime!

🌻Our first farm pick up will be on Monday July 14th.
Veggie boxes will be ready and available from 6pm 8pm, our farm is located at 1213 Lower Branch Rd, Branch LaHave B4V 4K1.
*this pick up can sometimes be contactless, meaning you will find your cooler bag or box with your name and veggies on our farm table in the middle of our driveway for you.

🛻Our first “farm-to-table” delivery will be on Thursday July 17th. Veggie boxes will be delivered between 6pm-8:30pm to your door. If you are not home to receive the box it will be safely left at your doorstep area for you. 🥷

**to our market pick up fams: your first CSA drop off will be on Sunday July 20 - this will be doubled.

ADD ONS: if you would like to add extra items to your weekly CSA send an email by Wednesday of that delivery week and we’d be happy to stock you up!

•Pro tip: it is ideal to have two large cooler bags available for the program. Having the ability to exchange your cooler bags each week ensures your food is protected from the elements, is in a secure box/bag/cooler of your choosing and streamlines our delivery process. The first week you will receive a veggie tray on us, we ask you have your cooler bags available at that time to use for the following week. This applies to delivery customers AND farm pick up customers.
Also try having some small bags, jars or containers available is great for herbs or loose items like tomatoes. Please label ALL.

Missed boxes - Any missed farm/market pick ups will be donated to our charity of choice.

🌡️🌩️Weather policy- If we experience a storm or heat wave on our harvest day or the days surrounding harvesting, there may be a post-dated box. You receive all 8 weeks of veggies, Mother Nature can sometimes prolong that timeline. We will do ourbest to communicate and post any foreseeable storms or weather issues.

Weekly menu - We post our weekly box contents on our social media platforms every week - keeping in mind there may be items in your boxes that we don’t post. That’s because they’re small batch and special for you and your family. Shhh.

Our preferred and most reliable form of communication is via email. If you need to tell us something, want to add items to your delivery or have questions please email.

We have a market at Eli + Trix in Mahone Bay happening every Sunday morning.
CSA customers receive 25% off farm to fork orders and save 15% if purchasing items from the market.

Every dollar reinvested back into our town and growing your families food is a step tword a healthy and sustainable future for all.

We can’t wait to feed you!

***THERE IS STILL TIME TO JOIN***
We have ONE CSA space left for Farm Pick Up!
If you’d like to take part send us an email to [email protected] ASAP.

07/04/2025

Order UP!
The gardens are about to explode so we best get moving! We have an abundance of delicious things available direct from the farm this week.

Take a look at our offerings and email with your order. Let us know your preferred pick up day and location and we’ll get back to you with a confirmation and times for pick up.
Email us at [email protected].

We will have all of the listed items at our market on Sunday et Eli+Trix as well.

07/03/2025

All of these photos have two things in common:

1. Most people would call them patches of wild w**ds.
2. Those people got it all wrong and aren’t seeing the incredible pollinator gardens in front of them. While those little patches may not make sense to you, they make a world of difference to us.

They bring all the beneficial insects we need to grow healthy, spray-free food. From the bees working their magic with pollination to the cover they provide for butterflies to eat and rest. They support the small scale ecosystem on the farm for many living things.

Weeds enhance soil quality, support drainage and will hold on if things flood. They protect the gardens they grow around.

A handful of seeds tossed in some unused corners has the ability to actually save the world. If you have a patch, field or even ditch in your yard space, don’t mow it, plant a pollinator garden.

#🐝 #🌻 #🦋

07/03/2025

First time outside in a week, more or less. (We had some crappy health issues this week which landed us in the hospital for a few days. We’re all good now!). So thank you to all for your patience while we get caught up and ready for the week ahead! We will have lots available to order from the farm with a weekly mini menu being posted every week. In the meantime we have some walkways to w**d, loads of starters to go in the ground, some planned help from our buddies and a lot of work to do. Our CSA is coming up and all the details will be sent out and posted tomorrow (in case you needed a reminder!). Happy July!

06/30/2025

CSA folks & other friends:
Kindly remember our best form of contact is via email. Messenger can be touchy if we’re outside in the woods or away from the open fields and we don’t want to miss any communication.

We check our email twice daily and will always reply as quickly as possible. So hit us up at [email protected] any time.

Picture of my beautiful bug-hole-free kale heading to market this week for attention.

06/30/2025

This week was a bit different than usual. While the gardens took off and loved all of the rain, the greenhouse had the opportunity to cool off and soak up. We’ve been farming for nine years, every season is different. Finding the little glimmers all over the place while we deal with some health issues and continue to miss our pup who we recently lost.

Our CSA program starts next month and the market at Eli+Trix will be back this weekend from 9am to 1pm. Loads of new items, fresh baked goods, small batch dog treats, sea salt blends and farm fresh produce will be waiting for you.

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06/27/2025

06/21/2025

This was at 9am. Inside the greenhouse is currently 38.2. I’ve seen it hit 44.4 once. Luckily the fans continue to save the day (and our plants). We can fast forward to about 7pm at annnnny time.