Welcome To Our Farm!

You have reached Nancy and Michael Phillips, the folks who have written The Herbalist's Way and The Apple Grower.

We intend to make this website worthy of your visit, with photos, columns on all things herbal and our favorite apples, ordering information for all our farm products and books, and a posting of our speaking schedule.

Isn't this good earth a grand place to spend these precious days? And what a blessing now to count you among our friends!

Mountain Offerings

We love our wee bit of northern paradise in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Here's where we cultivate the most-in-demand herbs - milky oats, nettles, lemon balm, and calendula - as well as wildcraft other classic Northeastern plant medicines. (More than a few herbalists say our hawthorn blossom is the best!)

Please check what healing herbs will be available come summer harvest time. We invite you to reserve your order requests sooner rather than later so that we don't disappoint long-time customers. We offer eight varieties of hardneck garlic for seed and kitchen use, with such orders being filled beginning in September. A selection of quality tinctures, compound formulations, and family favorites can always be found in Nancy's Apothecary. Fall means it's time to harvest Lost Nation apples for local sale and start taking orders for apple trees when spring comes 'round again.

Classes at Heartsong Farm

Nancy and Michael will offer an Herbs for Family Health "Summer Camp" in 2009 for those of you just starting with the healing herbs. We will fill three days of intensive learning with loads of fun on July 10-12. An Organic Apple Intensive with Michael will take place the weekend of June 6 & 7 for those wanting an immersion into everything apple. We hope you can join us!

A Revised Apple Grower is Rarin' to Go!

Michael's apple book has been written anew. This time around Apple Grower comes in full color with many practical charts and completely surprising features, including a whopping seventy pages of new information on growing worthy fruit.

The cover price has gone up slightly to $40 for this expanded edition, but we promise to ship for free within the United States. We appreciate your direct support of authors and are quite happy to inscribe any of our books, if you wish.

This definitive guide to growing apples wisely, naturally, and with gentler impact on the earth covers all the cultural points of apple growing. Michael's personal voice and clear-eyed advice have already made The Apple Grower (click for online edition) a classic among small-scale growers and home orchardists. In fact, anyone serious about succeeding with apples needs to have this updated edition on their bookshelf.

Slow Cider

What do you get when you combine the concept of Slow Money with the pleasure of Slow Food? Particularly when you're wishing for a cold glass of organic apple cider? Michael aims to generate more feedback about Cider Shares as we work towards the vision of a community cider mill at Lost Nation Orchard.

Our Commitment to the Plants

Heartsong Farm Healing Herbs has made a commitment to monitor local populations of endangered medicinal plants and to cultivate such plants in our field and woodland gardens. You will not find endangered or threatened plant species in any of our herbal offerings unless these have been organically grown from seed or root stock. We encourage everyone to get involved further with the vital work of United Plant Savers to both honor and conserve our green friends.

Join our Herbal Healing Network

Stay informed about issues important to herbalists and the happenings here at Heartsong Farm Healing Herbs by signing up to be a part of this emailing list. We'll write only on occasion, as you can imagine how busy life on an herb farm gets to be throughout the growing season.