Maple Springs Farm on the Land Conservation Assistance Network

Maple Springs Farm
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last updated: July 2022

Maple Springs Farm was established in 1998 on property that was for many years the farm of the Chute family. Maple Springs Farm is owned and operated by Mark Heidmann, who planted his first vegetable garden more than 50 years ago and for twelve years grew apples, pears, vegetables and raspberries in his small commercial orchard in Connecticut.

The first several years here were spent in building the first greenhouse, gradually expanding the plantings over about six acres, building the foundation for healthy soil, and establishing the initial plantings of crops such as perennial flowers, raspberries and apples. Maple Springs Farm opened for retail business in 2002.

Maple Springs Farm uses three main criteria for choosing our vegetable and fruit crops: beauty, flavor and diversity. Therefore, we carefully select varieties from many sources.

Some heirlooms have flavors, shapes or other strengths that are not found in hybrid varieties. So I grow many different heirloom vegetables as well as antique apple varieties that I grafted from old orchards, and I save my own seeds for some flowers and vegetables.

But some modern varieties yield better, are more disease resistant, or have unique flavors. So I also grow new disease-resistant apples, new raspberry varieties, and new flowers and vegetables of special merit.

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