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Heritage Family Farms is usually open each year, in season for their crops. It's ALWAYS advisable to see the Heritage Family Farms website, and/or to call or email them before you head out to the farm to determine the crop availability, as many factors, such as weather, soil conditions and even market and economic conditions affect what they have and when. And that can change not only from year to year, but day to day!
Below is a general month by month overview for the northern hemisphere (North America). Be sure to see the Missouri-specific harvest calendar for local dates.
Below is the general info, keep in mind this is very general, this is NOT a list of what Heritage Family Farms has this year or ANY year or will have on any day. See the Missouri-specific harvest calendar for typical crop harvest dates in Missouri and see Heritage Family Farms website for their current availability. This list below is a general list for many commonly grown crops.
The South will be the earlier end, and the North, the latter:
After you go to Heritage Family Farms, you may want to freeze, can, make jams, jellies, sauces, pickles or preserve the fruit or vegetables you get there. See these pages below for detailed, illustrated, step-by-step instructions that make it easy!
Water bath canner with a jar rack
Pressure canners for gas, electric and induction stoves: Presto 23Qt or T-fal 22Qt
Canning scoop (this one is PERFECT)
Ball Blue book (most recent version)