Heartsgood Farms

03/15/2026

The Table
Long before there were churches, temples, or institutions, there was a table.
The table is one of the oldest sacred places in human history.
It is where people gather.
It is where food from the earth becomes nourishment.
It is where conversation happens, where children learn, and where stories are passed from one generation to the next.
Across cultures and centuries, the table has quietly served as a kind of altar of everyday life.
The Jewish Sabbath Table

In Jewish life the Sabbath meal gathers the family each week. Candles are lit, bread is blessed, and gratitude is spoken.
For many rabbis, the family table became the altar of the home, where faith and life meet.
The Table of Jesus

Much of the teaching of Jesus happened at a table.
He ate with fishermen, families, strangers, and even those society rejected.
His final meal with his disciples became the symbol of fellowship, humility, and love.
The Table of Family Life

In farming communities around the world, the table has always been the center of life.
Food grown from the soil is shared.
The events of the day are talked through.
Children learn by listening to the wisdom of their elders.
This simple gathering has shaped families for generations.
The table reminds us of something important.
The purpose of growing food, tending gardens, and working the land is not just survival.
It is bringing people together.
A seed planted in the soil eventually becomes something far greater than food.
It becomes a moment where people sit together, share a meal, and remember that life itself is a gift.
Maybe the table has always been one of the quiet places where the sacred touches ordinary life.
And perhaps that is why the work of growing real food still matters.
Because every garden eventually leads back to a table.

03/01/2026

Value of just one Heirloom non GMO bean seed, can produce hundreds even thousands of pounds of seeds. Save and replant year after year!

Kidney bean time lapse with soil cross section. Showing how roots ant upper part of plant grows.Play speed - 17280x (one shot every 9 minutes 36 seconds play...

03/01/2026

Heirloom seeds, think about it. Just one seed because it can be saved and replanted and theoretically produce not just hundreds thousands of 1000s of pounds of food. Heirloom seeds, Because they can be save and replanted, think about the potential of one seed can produce not just hundreds, but thousands of thousands of pounds of beans.

Germination of a Seed. This time lapse video shows how a seed germinates over time. The video clearly shows the roots developing and then the shoot. The time...

03/01/2026

It was a pleasure to meet and visit a bit with Chief Gary Batton of the Choctaw Nation, along with Assistant Chief Jack Austin today in Fayetteville. I wanted to learn all I could today and got a pretty good feel for where Chief Batton wants to take them. He especially talked about more preventive healthcare and less dependence on Prescription Drugs, that got my attention.

Other concerns were how much they needed diversity of revenue, depending less on casino revenues. Need for more business models, again diversification.

I got to watch as Batton led about 20 members in a tribal war dance and snake dance among couple of others.

I always love hearing about the relationship between the Choctaws and the Irish and he encouraged members to travel to Ireland. I have written often about the story in the past which prompted the leaders doing a spread on me and the creation of Heartsgood Farms a couple of years ago. I was surprised but felt it an honor to be selected. Now to find ways to live up to expectations, especially my own.

Anyway, check back from time to time if you would, I have a good feeling about the possibilities. We will be healthier when we return to real food!

02/26/2026

Eight years ago I weighed about 200 pounds. At 5’7”, that’s heavy.
Today I’m around 163.
That didn’t happen because of a diet.
It happened because of a decision.
I started changing how I ate, how I moved, and how I thought about food. Not perfectly — just consistently.
Recently I’ve been paying closer attention to my blood sugar, and I’m seeing something encouraging. Overnight my glucose has been dropping into the 90s and low 100s. That tells me the body can heal more than we sometimes believe.
Along the way I learned something important:
Many of the health problems we face today — diabetes, fatty liver, heart disease — are connected to how we live. And that also means they can improve when we change how we live.
No miracle pills.
No shortcuts.
Just better choices repeated over time.
Here’s the part that matters most to me:
Growing some of our own food, even a little, connects us back to something real. A seed becomes a plant. A plant becomes food. Food becomes health.
We don’t have to grow everything we eat. But growing something changes how we think.
Health isn’t about perfection.
It’s about direction.
If you’re struggling, start small. Walk a little more. Eat a little better. Plant something. Learn something.
The body responds when we give it a chance.
We must have food. And sometimes the path back to health begins with a seed.

02/25/2026

A place called Home continued.

02/25/2026

What’s ina home? To me it represented not just a shelter from the elements, but a place to return to to help heal the wounds, remove the scars, a place to call home. That has been my idea since I was in my early teens. My folks never owned a home until they had been married almost 50 years, we always rented and when I started dating, hoping to find a special somebody, I got lucky early on.

And on a drive one day outside of Ada in the country, I came to a hillside while Beth was with me in the car. We’ve only been dating about a month, when we came to a spot where I stopped the car and asked her to look into the hillside to see what she could see. Of course there was nothing there just healed a few trees. I told her then what I saw a white house surrounded by white fence, and even with children out front swinging on a swing. I shared that dream I had with her that day corny yes but true.

We moved a lot in our early marriage, my work during the summers took us to other places. First Memphis and I think we both immediately knew we did not want to live in a city. And the next summer took us to Hendersonville, North Carolina on the slopes on the east part of the great Smoky Mountains, loved it. The beauty of the Hills and all of the springfed around was just like a paradise to us having grown up in Oklahoma.

The next summer took us to South Georgia and I learned something from that George is a beautiful state but not the southern part and we didn’t want to end up there. So the next summer, I put in request something near Appalachia and got my wish Bristol Virginia right on the Tennessee border. Again Hill sides with clean flowing spring fed creeks Just loved it and knew that’s where we would end up someplace like that.  That next summer we found our self on the southern edge Lexington, Kentucky again beautiful rolling Hills and green grass a little bit too populated for us, but nonetheless a place that we felt comfortable in. And then the next summer took us to Athens, Tennessee again this time on the Western slope of the smoky mountains and a beautiful country and great trout fishing.

Then I was finished with college and got a job working with the company in Nashville, Tennessee, a great city but a city is not for us. I had a great job except I was traveling most of the time generally gone five days a week, and then only on home on Saturday and Sunday. I went to the man who I respected a great deal and learned so much from and painfully sit down in his office to explain that I could not be the father and husband I wish to be with this much travel. I wanted stability for my family and while I could’ve worked a few years and had that they would never be the age again they were our two youngest sons ages two and three that only happens once and their lifetime.

So our next move, we wanted to make a good decision we thought about it and we had an opportunity to visit Northwest Arkansas, it was like I love at first sight all over again smaller hills than Western North Carolina closer to Eastern Tennessee and not unlike Lexington and Bristol. This is it!

I found this place while without driving one day and stopped dead still in the middle of the road Beth was with me and I said here it is this is that picture that I saw back in March 1966 when we were dating. It had everything and more the trees, but no swing yet and the Children that I saw would be our grandchildren, not our children, but it was the white house that needed to be built in there would be no problem surrounding it with a white fence.

Too bad I would go to work on what kind of house what it would look like I knew her so well we’ve been married over 40 years I scoured every picture of home you could imagine online untold hours knowing what I want. It wasn’t probably out there, but there was a combination and it had to be connected to the English countryside or at least Irish, I had to be a welcoming cottage. I didn’t pick out the colors. Beth would do that, but when I showed her what I had mine after taking it to a draftsman to draw up for me, she saw it too.

This would be our home we have arrived, at least so we thought. But things in life change, and as we grow older, painfully we have decided to sell our place. It’s 3400 ft.² roughly with about 8+ acres. Built in 2005. We were picky on the inside, nothing fancy or extravagant but rather what I thought of as a simpler statement inside. Simple message that will weather the storms.

We will soon most likely be listing it, but want to give you an idea with pictures, my idea of a real home. I had planned to add a nice greenhouse, plenty of room next to the house on the south side, but instead built raised beds, from which we grow enough to provide for us year round, veggies and fruit. Add chickens and one has a place they can grow old in, a place one can call, home. 

02/19/2026

REAL FOOD!

01/25/2026

Most people have found us through Etsy, word of mouth, and a few small magazine ads published by different states. We’re grateful for that. We were honestly and delightfully surprised when orders started coming in from all over the country. Last year we received orders from people in 49 states.
But the really fun part for me was this. Out of the thousands who ordered from us online, there were almost as many who picked up the phone and called in their order instead. That was a delight. I love talking to people, Always have. I guess it’s part of the Okie in me. If you call in an order heads up, I Love hearing people’s stories.

01/24/2026

Family-owned business.
No machinery — just people doing it the old-fashioned way. Non GMO Heirloom Seeds only.

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas Everyone!