Garden Harvest, Inc. has a
total of 105 acres of land from two farms located just a couple of miles
apart. About 15 acres are planted in fruit trees: 200 peach, 450 Asian Pear, 20 plum, 40 apricot, 24 cherry, and
50 Paw Paw trees; the balance of the acreage produces a wide assortment of annual fruit and vegetables crops, as well as cut flowers and culinary, aromatic, and medicinal herbs.
Through the generous support of foundations, Garden Harvest has purchased all the equipment necessary to implement the no-till sustainable agriculture. This method enables us to plant
all the summer and Fall crops quickly and efficiently into fields pre-mulched with cover crops that provide weed protection, moisture retention, and slow release
of nitrogen.
The
integration of farm animals into our food production system is crucial
to maximize productivity of the no-till system. Since cover crops
do not always germinate perfectly, weeds crop up, & begin to
proliferate. When that happens, we put the animals on that land;
they denude the land of weeds as completely as do herbicides but without
any cost and without polluting the soil & ground water with toxic
chemicals. Moreover, while performing this job of weed control, the
animals add lots of fertilizer! Then, after the land is weeded
& fertilized, we can plant it again.
Garden
Harvest also has a new new 100 gallons per minute well, which, once
hooked up with pipe going to all the fields, will propel Garden Harvest's production/donation levels to, and possibly even beyond, our goal of distributing 1,000,000 pounds of produce annually.
Perhaps the most exciting part of this incredible success is that it comes as the result of an outstanding response from the community: Individuals, students in schools and colleges, staff and clientele from emergency food service and shelter providers, government workers, civic and social club members, church and synagogue constituents, and corporate executives and employees have all provided dependable, enthusiastic volunteers. In 1994 we had 333 volunteers to work in our fields. In 1995, that figure exploded to over 1,921 individual volunteers. By
Y2000, over 5,000 individuals donated over 18,000 hours of planting, crop maintenance, harvesting, and even administrative tasks.
And every year, since them more groups have come!
Garden Harvest, Inc. has a
total of 105 acres of land from two farms located just a couple of miles
apart. About 15 acres are planted in fruit trees: 200 peach, 450 Asian Pear, 20 plum, 40 apricot, 24 cherry, and
50 Paw Paw trees; the balance of the acreage produces a wide assortment of annual fruit and vegetables crops, as well as cut flowers and culinary, aromatic, and medicinal herbs.
Through the generous support of foundations, Garden Harvest has purchased all the equipment necessary to implement the no-till sustainable agriculture. This method enables us to plant
all the summer and Fall crops quickly and efficiently into fields pre-mulched with cover crops that provide weed protection, moisture retention, and slow release
of nitrogen. 
Perhaps the most exciting part of this incredible success is that it comes as the result of an outstanding response from the community: Individuals, students in schools and colleges, staff and clientele from emergency food service and shelter providers, government workers, civic and social club members, church and synagogue constituents, and corporate executives and employees have all provided dependable, enthusiastic volunteers. In 1994 we had 333 volunteers to work in our fields. In 1995, that figure exploded to over 1,921 individual volunteers. By
Y2000, over 5,000 individuals donated over 18,000 hours of planting, crop maintenance, harvesting, and even administrative tasks.
And every year, since them more groups have come! 
