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The mission of The Heartwood Seed Project is to nurture faith and community around the shared mission of caring for creation and growing fresh produce for local food banks to extend equitable access to fresh food in the Fredericksburg/Stafford region.

10/29/2026

🌳🍎 77 TREES. TWO DAYS. LOTS OF SHOVELING. ONE GROWING ORCHARD! 🍐🙌

The Northern Orchard at the Heartwood Seed Project has officially been planted, and we couldn't be more excited! After two wonderful days of digging, planting, watering, and getting our hands (and probably a few other things!) dirty, 77 fruit trees are now in the ground! 🎉

A HUGE THANK YOU to all the amazing volunteers who showed up, picked up a shovel, and helped make these two planting days such a success. It takes a community to grow an orchard, and we're grateful for every person who helped put down roots for the future. ❤️

🌱 So, what exactly did we plant?
🍐 2 varieties of pears
🍑 Plums
🍎 6 varieties of apples

And we're not done yet! We have 4 more fruit trees arriving in the Spring planting plan, which will bring our Northern Orchard to a grand total of 81 fruit trees! That's a whole lot of future fruit—and a whole lot of potential pie! 🥧😋

Of course, planting the trees is only the beginning. We've been busy watering them to help those roots establish a healthy foundation before the fall frost and winter months arrive. Because even trees need a good drink before settling in for a long winter's nap! 💧🌳

These trees represent more than future harvests. They're an investment in creation care, sustainable agriculture, and the many ways we can nourish our community for years to come.

To everyone who helped us dig, plant, water, and make it happen: THANK YOU! You helped turn a patch of ground into a growing orchard, and we can't wait to see what takes root here.

Now, we just need a little sunshine, a little rain, a lot of patience, and absolutely no hungry deer with expensive tastes! 🦌😂

Hands in the Dirt. Hearts together in Mission. And one day, fruit in the basket! 🍎❤️🌱

10/22/2026

🚨🌳 THE FRUIT TREES ARE HERE! GRAB A SHOVEL—WE NEED YOU! 🍎🎉

After a little waiting, a little patience, and a few more shipping updates than we cared to count, our fruit trees have FINALLY arrived at the Heartwood Seed Project! 🙌

Now it’s time to get these future orchards of deliciousness into the ground before Mother Nature turns down the thermostat and Jack Frost comes knocking! 🥶

📅 WHEN: Friday, October 23
⏰ TIME: Starting at 2:00 PM
📍 WHERE: Heartwood Seed Project, 64 Hartwood Church Rd, Fredericksburg, VA

🌱 WHAT WILL WE BE DOING?

🪏 Digging holes! Approximately 2 feet wide and 2 feet deep. Who needs a gym membership when you have fruit trees to plant?

🌳 Giving our trees a good home! We’ll backfill each hole with half native soil and half a blend of compost, sand, and topsoil.

🦌 Protecting our investment! We’ll wrap each tree to help keep our four-legged friends from turning our future orchard into an all-you-can-eat buffet.

💧 Keeping the roots happy! Each tree will get a Gator watering bag to help it stay hydrated as it establishes itself.

🧤 WHAT SHOULD YOU BRING?
✅ A shovel
✅ Work gloves
✅ Sturdy shoes or boots
✅ Clothes you don't mind getting dirty
✅ A willingness to lend a hand (and maybe a little muscle!)

No fruit-tree expertise required! Just bring yourself, and we'll work together to get these trees planted.

These trees represent more than future apples, pears, and other delicious harvests. They're an investment in the future of Heartwood, a way to care for God's creation, and another opportunity to grow something meaningful together.

And remember: the more hands we have, the fewer holes each person has to dig! That's just good agricultural math. 😂

Let's get these trees in the ground, give them a strong start, and cultivate something wonderful for generations to come. 🌳❤️

Hands in the Dirt. Hearts together in Mission.

📣 SHARE THIS POST and invite a friend! Let's get a great crew together and get planting before the cold sets in!

10/17/2026

🌱 A LITTLE DIRT, A LOT OF HEART, AND STRAWBERRY PLANTS COMING OUT OF OUR EARS! 🍓

Another productive day at the Heartwood Seed Project, where the plants are growing, the roads are taking shape, and our volunteers continue to prove that amazing things happen when people put their hands in the dirt and their hearts into the mission! 💚

Today’s progress report? Let’s just say we gave Mother Nature a little help getting ready for winter!

🫐 The blueberries are tucked in for winter! We winterized our blueberry bushes with a fresh application of soil acidifier, a cozy new layer of pine straw, and pine nuggets to top off their winter beds. Think of it as a little seasonal spa treatment for our berry bushes. They’re going into winter looking better prepared than some of us are! 😂

🍓 Houston, we have a strawberry situation! Earlier this spring, after our first harvest, we let our strawberry plants do what strawberries do best: send out runners and multiply. And multiply they did!

What started as approximately 75 plants has grown into MORE THAN 200! That’s right—we more than doubled our strawberry patch, and we may need to start issuing tiny eviction notices to keep these plants from taking over the neighborhood. 🤣

Thanks to our incredible volunteers, we were able to move the expanded strawberry patch to its new home. We’re excited to see what this growing patch produces next season!

🪨 Building the road to the Northern Orchard! We also made great progress spreading the tons and tons of donated stone from Vulcan Quarry as we continue preparing the road to our Northern Orchard. It’s a big step toward transforming more of this property into productive farmland that will provide fresh food for neighbors experiencing food insecurity.

And yes, that is a LOT of stone. We’re pretty sure even the rocks are tired after today! 😆

Every blueberry bush winterized, every strawberry plant relocated, and every load of stone spread represents another step forward in what we’re building together at Heartwood.

The Heartwood Seed Project is about so much more than growing food. It’s about caring for God’s creation, cultivating community, sharing resources, and putting faith into action in ways that make a tangible difference in the lives of our neighbors.

To our amazing volunteers: THANK YOU! Your time, energy, hard work, and willingness to get a little (or a LOT) muddy make this mission possible. And to Vulcan Quarry, thank you for your generous donation of stone that is helping us prepare the way for what comes next!

There is still plenty of work ahead, but things are growing, progress is happening, and the future is looking fruitful. 🌱

As we like to say at Heartwood:

Hands in the Dirt. Hearts Together in Mission.💚

And apparently, strawberry plants everywhere! 🍓😂

10/14/2026

🌱 HEARTWOOD UPDATE: The Fruit Trees Are Delayed, but We’re Still Digging In! 🌳

Well, friends, it looks like our fruit trees are running a little behind schedule! Apparently, even trees need to work on their time management skills. 😂

Unfortunately, our fruit tree order has been delayed. We’re waiting for a new shipping date and will share an update as soon as we have one. That means our Northern Orchard planting day will have to wait a little longer!

BUT SATURDAY’S WORKDAY IS STILL ON! 🙌

📅 Saturday, October 17 | 9 AM–2 PM
📍 64 Hartwood Church Road, Fredericksburg, VA
(Behind the Hartwood Fire Station)

We’ll still be out at Heartwood:
🍓 Moving our strawberry patch
🫐 Winterizing our berry bushes
💪 Getting a head start on preparing for next growing season

Wear sturdy boots and clothes you don’t mind getting dirty. This is a workday, not a fashion show—and the mud is not accepting applications for best-dressed volunteer! 😂

Bring work gloves, water, snacks, and a shovel or rake if you have one. Come for an hour or stay the whole time. Every helping hand makes a difference!

Even when plans change, the mission continues. Together, we’re caring for God’s creation, cultivating community, and growing fresh food for our neighbors.

Hands in the Dirt. Hearts Together in Mission. ❤️🌱

We hope to see you Saturday at Heartwood Seed Project! And stay tuned—the fruit trees will get their day in the dirt soon enough!

10/05/2026

🌱 Heartwood Seed Project — September in Review

September was a busy at the Heartwood Seed Project—and apparently, our raspberry bushes did not get the memo that summer was over! 😂

After a great summer harvest of blueberries and blackberries, our red raspberries have put on quite a show. For the past month and a half, they’ve been producing nearly a quart every three days. We’ve also harvested tomatoes, peppers, and more than 300 pounds of watermelon! 🍉

And while the harvest keeps us busy, there’s always plenty happening behind the scenes.

This month, we:
🍓 Finished the trellis system for our raspberry and blackberry bushes

🌳 Cleared the remaining trees to square off the northern field

🍎 Prepared the northern field for our new orchard, which should be planted in just a couple of weeks!

But the most important part of all of this?

The food doesn’t stay at Heartwood.
Everything we harvest is donated to local church food pantries and the S.E.R.V.E. Stafford Food Pantry, helping provide fresh, nutritious produce to our neighbors who need it.

This is what mission looks like: planting, growing, harvesting, serving—and occasionally wondering how one watermelon got that big. 😂

Come join us for our upcoming work days at the Heartwood Seed Project as we put our hands in the dirt and our hearts together in mission. 🌱❤️

09/24/2026

🌱 TWO WORKDAYS. ONE MISSION. LOTS OF DIRT. 🌱

Something special is growing at the Heartwood Seed Project—and we need your help!

Over the next few weeks, we have two opportunities to get our hands dirty, work side-by-side, and help prepare the garden for what comes next.

🌿 MONDAY, OCTOBER 12

Fall Cleanup & Winter Prep
⏰ 9:00 AM–2:00 PM

We’ll be:
🪵 Chipping brush
🪵 Moving logs
🚜 Moving dirt
🫐 Winterizing the berry bushes
💪 And tackling whatever else the garden has waiting for us!

🍎 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17

Northern Orchard Planting
⏰ 9:00 AM–2:00 PM

We’ll be planting fruit trees in our Northern Orchard—putting down roots for a harvest that will bless our neighbors for years to come!

📍 Both workdays:
64 Hartwood Church Road
Fredericksburg, VA 22406
(Behind the Hartwood Fire Station)

You don’t have to stay the whole time! Come when you can, stay as long as you’re able, and lend a hand. Experienced gardener? Wonderful. Never planted a tree in your life? Perfect. There’s a job for you!

🧤 Bring: A shovel • Work gloves • Water • A willingness to get a little dirty!

There’s something deeply hopeful about planting a tree. We put a small tree into the ground today, knowing that its greatest harvest may come years from now.

That’s the heart of this mission.

We’re not simply growing food. We’re planting for the future—caring for God’s creation, cultivating community, and growing a harvest that can bless our neighbors.

🌱 Hands in the Dirt. Hearts Together in Mission. ❤️

Come get your hands dirty. Come grow with us. Come be part of what God is growing at Heartwood Seed Project!

08/31/2026

🌱 COME GROW SOMETHING GOOD WITH US! 🌱

The garden is growing—and so is the impact! Come get your hands dirty and be part of something that is making a real difference in our community. 💚

Join us for our next Heartwood Seed Project Workday!
📅 Monday, August 31
⏰ 9:00 AM–2:00 PM
📍 64 Hartwood Church Road, Fredericksburg, VA 22406
(Behind the Hartwood Fire Station)

What’s happening in the garden? 🌿
🍅 Harvesting fruits and vegetables
🫐 Weeding, fertilizing & caring for berry bushes
🌱 General garden maintenance
🔨 Work around the new building

And don't worry—you don't have to stay the whole time! Come when you can, stay as long as you're able. Even an hour makes a difference!

Never gardened before? No problem! You don't need experience—just a willing heart and a desire to serve. ❤️
🧤 Bring work gloves
🪴 Bring a rake, shovel, or gardening tools
💧 Bring water & sunscreen
👕 Wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty!

Bring a friend. Get a little dirty. Have some fun. And help us grow food, hope, and community!

🌱 Let's grow something good together!
Will you join us on August 31? We’d love to see you there!

08/18/2026

Yesterday at the Heartwood Seed Project, we traded our garden gloves for shovels—and there was no shortage of sweat, mud, dirt, and digging! 🌱💪

A lot of the work that makes a garden grow happens beneath the surface. Yesterday was a perfect example.

We dug and filled multiple trenches, including one for the electrical hookup for our well pump. For the past year, we've relied on a generator to power the pump that brings water to our fields. Now, we're taking an important step toward a more permanent and sustainable solution.

We also dug a drainage trench around our new barn to help protect the building and manage water as we continue developing the project.

It wasn't glamorous work. It wasn't easy work. But it was important work!

And that's one of the things we love about Heartwood: growing food isn't just about what happens above the ground. It takes people willing to dig deep, get dirty, move some dirt, and lay the groundwork for something that will bless our community for years to come.

A huge THANK YOU to the volunteers who showed up yesterday and put in the sweat, strength, and hard work! Your hands are helping Heartwood take root—and helping us grow fresh food, cultivate community, and care for God's creation.

And the work is never done! Mark your calendars and join us for our next Work Day on Monday, August 31!

Come ready to get your hands dirty, lend a hand, and be part of what God is growing at Heartwood. You don't have to be an expert gardener—just bring yourself and a willingness to work!

🌱 Monday, August 31 // 9 AM
🛠️ Heartwood Seed Project // 64 Hartwood Church Rd. Fredericksburg, VA - behind the Hartwood Fire Station💪 Come ready to work, serve, and grow!

08/12/2026

🌱 COME GROW SOMETHING GOOD WITH US! 🌱

The garden is growing—and so is the impact! Come get your hands dirty and be part of something that is making a real difference in our community. 💚

Join us for our next Heartwood Seed Project Workday!

📅 Monday, August 31
⏰ 9:00 AM–2:00 PM
📍 64 Hartwood Church Road, Fredericksburg, VA 22406
(Behind the Hartwood Fire Station)

What’s happening in the garden? 🌿
🍅 Harvesting fruits and vegetables
🫐 Weeding, fertilizing & caring for berry bushes
🌱 General garden maintenance
🔨 Work around the new building

And don't worry—you don't have to stay the whole time! Come when you can, stay as long as you're able. Even an hour makes a difference!

Never gardened before? No problem! You don't need experience—just a willing heart and a desire to serve. ❤️

🧤 Bring work gloves
🪴 Bring a rake, shovel, or gardening tools
💧 Bring water & sunscreen
👕 Wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty!

Bring a friend. Get a little dirty. Have some fun. And help us grow food, hope, and community!

🌱 Let's grow something good together!

Will you join us on August 31? We’d love to see you there!

07/18/2026

There are days when you stand, look around, and just smile because you can see the faith, hard work, and hope taking root.

This week was one of those weeks.

When we planted our berry bushes just 16 months ago, we dreamed about what they might become. Today, those little plants have already given us an incredible harvest.

So far this year, we've harvested:
🍓 50 pounds of strawberries
🫐 24 pounds of blueberries
🖤 5 pounds of blackberries
❤️ 5 pounds of raspberries

And the raspberries are already sending up new canes for next year's fruit. It's a reminder that even while we're celebrating today's harvest, tomorrow's is already being prepared.

The garden continues to surprise us with its abundance. We've harvested nearly 150 pounds of zucchini and yellow squash, the peppers and tomatoes are finally beginning to ripen, and the melons are growing bigger every day. Every walk through the rows brings something new to celebrate.

But the harvest isn't the only thing growing.

This week we also finished the trenching and drainage around the concrete pad for our future building. It may not be as colorful as berries or tomatoes, but it's just as important. Every shovel of dirt and every load of gravel is another step toward creating a place where people can gather, learn, share seeds, grow food, and build community.

A special thank you to the generous donor who provided 50 tons of gravel that made this milestone possible. Your gift is helping lay the foundation for what comes next, and we are deeply grateful!

The Heartwood Seed Project has never been just about growing food. It's about cultivating hope, stewarding the land, sharing what we've been given, and building a community rooted in service. Every seed planted, every w**d pulled, every harvest shared, and every helping hand reminds us why this work matters.

Hands in the dirt, hearts together in mission. 🌱💚

Thank you for walking this journey with us—whether you've volunteered, donated, prayed, or simply cheered us on. You're part of this story, and we can't wait to see what the next week—and the next season—will bring.

The best is still growing.

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