Healthy Home Harvest

There finally seems to be a glimmer of hope in the air that Spring might actually be around the proverbial corner. I don’t know about you but I’m ready! We have looked at a number of interesting topics in the past several newsletters. Hopefully, they have been of some interest and help to you. With Spring beginning to tease us with thoughts of flowers blooming and vegetables to harvest, I thought that I would spend a little bit of time in the next several newsletters looking at soil. OK, I suppose you could say that I will attempt to give you the “dirt” on soil. Continue reading Dr Tomato’s Science Corner…

While most commercial growers in the region were scrambling to hook up generators and get their heating systems fired up on that windy Thursday night, we were pan frying Shiitakes on the woodstove in the Mother Ship for dinner.  We have an emergency generator for our home, however we had no need to hook it up to our greenhouses.  Continue reading The Mothership, Powerless…?…

Recently, because Healthy Home Harvest LLC is becoming so well known for the fine gourmet mushrooms we grow, I have gotten quite a few questions about mushrooms. So I will try to answer most of them in this short discussion about the wonderful world of mushrooms!

One of the most basic questions that I get is “What the heck IS a mushroom anyway?” One would think that this would be very easy and straight forward to answer, right? Well, yes and no.

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When: Saturday, February 20th from 9:00am until 1:00pm.

Where: The Stone Church, Newmarket NH.

The February 20 Newmarket Farmers Market is going to be exciting; as we hope to unveil our first ever winter crop of Shiitake mushrooms!  As always, we will have some of our oyster mushrooms along with bags of various fresh-picked winter greens and herbs.  Dr. Tomato and James will be there, as always, to answer any of your gardening and growing questions.

The venue is small and intimate. The vendors are diverse, enthusiastic and friendly. There is great food available and some very talented live musicians provide first class entertainment. The feeling is more like a family gathering than a trip to the local store. We look forward to seeing you at the next Newmarket Farmers Market!

For those of you not familiar with Newmarket, the Stone Church is up on the hill behind the Post Office in downtown Newmarket. This is our favorite farmers market! Good atmosphere, live music, some wonderful vendors, good food and a variety of  products. See you there!

Fosters Daily Democrat has published an article written by John Nolan, about the Gardener’s Forum hosted by Dr Tomato on Feb. 3rd.

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Many of you have been asking if we were going to be able to produce more of our widely renowned mushrooms to meet your ever expanding demand. Well, you asked for it and it is here. Starting in about a week, we will be dramatically increasing our growing capacity AND adding several new varieties. Growing mushrooms successfully is a demanding process that requires a great deal of precision. Our new growing chamber will allow us to offer you our unsurpassed, organically grown gourmet mushrooms in quantities that should meet your culinary logistic demands! New varieties will include Shiitake (yes, Shiitake mushrooms year round!), Lion’s Mane and probably Beech Mushrooms. We are planning to offer the first wave of new varieties at the Newmarket Farmers’ Market to be held February 20th at the Stone Church in Newmarket. Come visit us and the other vendors. I’ve said it before – THIS IS A GREAT MARKET! The Newmarket Farmers’ Market – New Hampshire’s FIRST and ONLY year round Farmers’ Market!

Dr. Tomato would like to thank the Farmington Public Library and community for a fun and enthusiastic gardening forum.  He’s looking forward to seeing our Farmington friends again soon. Farmington Library is trying to make their gardening forum an ongoing event for the community.  They have some fun and educational events coming up.  Be sure to check them out…we’ll keep you posted in the next newsletters.

You asked us to make them available and now we have them – actually, we MAKE them! Those of you who didn’t ask us to make them available are, instead, probably asking – WHAT THE HECK ARE LOW TUNNELS? Continue reading Low Tunnels Are Here!…

On Wednesday, February 3rd at 6:00pm Dr. Tomato will be speaking at the Goodwin Library in downtown Farmington, N.H.. Continue reading Dr. Tomato’s “Tomato Mania” Tour…

James and I are proud to announce the arrival of a new member of the Healthy Home Harvest LLC family – the HOBBIT HOUSE! Last Friday the 15th of January, 2010 we plugged in the inflator fan signaling the completion of a new 65 foot, double layer, inflatable skin hoop greenhouse that we built ourselves. We now start the process of building the internal systems which will allow us to grow even more SOLARGANIC vegetables year round and also grow the high quality organically grown vegetable and flower seedlings we are so famous for. Keep an eye on our website, we will be posting pictures soon!