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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 our local food bank to extend equitable access to fresh food in the Fredericksburg/Stafford region.

🌱 HEARTWOOD UPDATE: The Fruit Trees Are Delayed, but We’re Still Digging In! 🌳Well, friends, it looks like our fruit tre...
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!

🌱 Heartwood Seed Project — September in ReviewSeptember was a busy at the Heartwood Seed Project—and apparently, our ras...
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. 🌱❤️

🌱 TWO WORKDAYS. ONE MISSION. LOTS OF DIRT. 🌱Something special is growing at the Heartwood Seed Project—and we need your ...
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!

🌱 COME GROW SOMETHING GOOD WITH US! 🌱The garden is growing—and so is the impact! Come get your hands dirty and be part o...
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!

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

🌱 COME GROW SOMETHING GOOD WITH US! 🌱The garden is growing—and so is the impact! Come get your hands dirty and be part o...
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!

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

🌱 The Garden is Growing… and We Need Your Help! 🌱Good news: the Heartwood Seed Project garden is thriving!Even better ne...
07/09/2026

🌱 The Garden is Growing… and We Need Your Help! 🌱

Good news: the Heartwood Seed Project garden is thriving!
Even better news: there are still plenty of w**ds that need reminding of who is in charge. 😉🌿

Join us for our next workday as we continue growing food, building relationships, and sharing God’s love through this ministry!

📅 Monday, July 13, 2026
🕘 9:00 AM (Lunch will be provided!)
📍 64 Hartwood Church Road, Fredericksburg, VA 22406
(Behind the Hartwood Fire Station)

During our workday, we’ll be:
🌿 Filling the drainage trench around the new building pad
🌿 Weeding around berry bushes and vegetable crops
🌿 Harvesting strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries
🌿 Gathering zucchini and squash while caring for tomato and pepper plants
🌿 Giving the garden some much-needed love and attention

The Heartwood Seed Project is so much more than a garden. It is a place where people serve, build friendships, care for God’s creation, and bring hope to our neighbors by growing fresh food for local food pantries and families experiencing food insecurity.

No gardening experience needed! Seriously. If you can pull a w**d, carry a bucket, pick a berry, or simply offer some encouragement, you have a place here. 🌱

Helpful things to bring (but absolutely not required):
🧤 Work gloves
🛠️ Wheelbarrow, rake, or shovel
🌱 Gardening tools
💧 Water bottle and sunscreen

Bring a friend, wear clothes you don’t mind getting dirty, and come enjoy a morning of serving together!

Because around here, we believe a little dirt on your hands can be a beautiful way to share God’s love. 💚

We hope to see you in the garden!

Questions? Email us at [email protected]

🌱 Heartwood Seed Project Workday – You're Invited! 🌱The garden is growing, the harvest is coming, and we'd love for you ...
06/30/2026

🌱 Heartwood Seed Project Workday – You're Invited! 🌱

The garden is growing, the harvest is coming, and we'd love for you to be part of it!

Whether you've volunteered with us before or this would be your very first time, there's a place for you at the Heartwood Seed Project. Together, we're growing fresh fruits and vegetables that help feed local families while building community and caring for God's creation.

📅 Monday, July 13, 2026
🕘 Starting at 9:00 AM (Come when you can and stay as long as you're able!)
📍 64 Hartwood Church Road, Fredericksburg, VA
(Behind the Hartwood Fire Station)

🌿 Projects for the day include:
🍓 Harvesting strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries
🥕 Harvesting tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, and squash
🪨 Filling the drainage trench around the new building pad with gravel
🌱 Weeding around berry bushes and vegetable crops

No gardening experience? No problem! There are jobs for every age, ability, and skill level. Whether you can stay for an hour or all morning, every helping hand makes a difference.

🧤 If you have them, feel free to bring:
• Work gloves
• Wheelbarrow
• Rake or shovel
• Gardening tools
• Water bottle

Come enjoy the fresh air, meet some great people, and be part of a ministry that's making a real impact in our community.

Bring a friend—we can't wait to see you! 🌞

🌱 Update from the Heartwood Seed Project: 🌱Apparently the garden didn't get the memo that it's only a little over a year...
06/29/2026

🌱 Update from the Heartwood Seed Project: 🌱

Apparently the garden didn't get the memo that it's only a little over a year old. 😄

This week, we brought in our first harvest of blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries—and I'm still in awe. These plants have only been in the ground a little over a year, yet they're already thriving! We harvested a quart of each berry, plus an incredible 25 pounds of zucchini and yellow squash.

It's amazing what can happen with a little patience, a lot of care, and God's provision. Every harvest is a reminder that growth often happens quietly... right up until you're wondering what to do with 25 pounds of squash. (If you see us sneaking zucchini onto your porch, no you didn't. 😉)

Thanks be to God for this bountiful harvest! We're so grateful to witness His faithfulness through every seed planted and every fruit gathered.

Our next Work day and Harvest day is coming up soon! Monday, July 13 9AM-2PM. Be on the lookout for more information!

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64 Hartwood Church Road
Fredericksburg, VA
22406

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