At Hoffman Heritage & Heirlooms, we do our part for seed preservation and take pride in strictly growing heirloom variety vegetables. Growing heirlooms allows us to offer vegetables that are higher in flavor as well as nutritional content, making them healthier and better for optimal digestion.

Although they have their fair share of healthy benefits, growing heirlooms don’t always make the prettiest produce. Most of the vegetables you see in the grocery store are genetic hybrids that have been genetically modified to be more appealing. Bigger, better looking and bred to be resistant to common pathogens and fluctuations of global climate change. We like that our growing practices make you understand the local environment and that things aren’t grown in a box. People at farmer’s market will be like “gosh these tomatoes are split” and I respond and say “Well we got 3 inches of rain last week, that causes the tomatoes to split. Or they say “This produce is sunburned,” and I say “Well that’s because it was 95 degrees last week and it’s not supposed to be 95 degrees in April.

For the record, we still think our produce is gorgeous. Take a look below and decide for yourself. We will take REAL produce over lab grown produce any day.