Welcome to Jacob's Cove Heritage Farm. We're the Allred family and we are passionate about growing and eating excellent food. Real food free of toxins and full of flavor. We've become increasingly frustrated in our efforts to find high-quality, fresh, local, organic food. All the food in the markets right now, even if it's organic, is shipped in from far off places like Mexico, California, New Zealand, and Chili. Out of this frustration has grown a desire to be a part of the solution to our food challenges. We want excellent, fresh, local food and we want it year round. We we know we can create it. We've been growing heirloom tomatoes for fine restaurants and farmers markets for the past 3 years. Here are some of the published comments about those tomatoes: Salt Lake City Weekly “And so is a Caprese salad of ruby, orange and blood-red colored heirloom tomatoes from Jacob’s Cove Farm served with soft and creamy hand-pulled mozzarella, basil and a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil. The plump biodynamically grown tomatoes taste like essence of tomato; it’s as if they were infused with some sort of nuclear tomato nectar. They come directly to Pizzeria Seven Twelve from the vine, where McRae picks them himself.”

	Yum! “I also never knew that I could love heirloom tomatoes so much. Wait, I already talked about those tomatoes. But I am serious, they were one of my favorite things.” Little Orange Tomatoes “The tomatoes are from Jacob's Cove, a local farm. See those cute little orange tomatoes? Those were my favorite. Next year I'm planting them in my garden.”
	I'm Addicted Now! “i never really thought i liked tomatoes much until i had their fresh jacob's cove heirloom tomatoes. i'm addicted now.”

As good as our tomatoes are, some of our other fruits and vegetables are just as good or even better. Up until now we've grown those items only for our own family and a few close friends. Here is a bowl of some of our heirloom melons. They are unbelievably good! Last year we sold our home in Pleasant Grove and moved to 8 acres in Orem so that we can grow more delicious food for ourselves and for a few lucky families in Utah County.

Jacob's Cove CSA

To do this we've created a CSA. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. This is a model by which you purchase a subscription (commonly referred to as a “share”) to the farm before the growing season. In return we produce food for your family. You become the “Community” in Community Supported Agriculture. Each week of harvest time you'll receive a box of fresh, seasonal produce. We grow it all. We'll have dozens of varieties of heirloom tomatoes, sweet peppers, cucumbers, carrots, a wide variety of greens, fingerling potatoes, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, beans, berries, fresh herbs and many other items. Here are some of the items we're growing this season:

When you choose to become a member of our CSA you are choosing to be a member of this community at Jacob's Cove. This farm is your farm. The food we grow is for you and your family. When we get up early to prune, weed and pick it's because we pledged to provide our community with food. Together we share the risks and benefits of local food production. (By the way, you're welcome to join us for some of that pruning, weeding and picking if that's what you want. Remember, it's your food and your farm.)

We decided that we can grow food for 100 families. That's it for now. Only 100. We've had several long-time customers from Salt Lake and Park City call to ask if we will grow for them. We've turned them down. We made the decision that we will be growing for families in Utah Valley. As far as we know we're the only CSA growing in Utah County. We believe that there are far more than 100 families who want fresh, high-quality, local food in this valley. Are you one of them?

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What's the Rush?

People get excited about us farming and making great food available to the public. Most ask when it will be available and promise to come by in a few months when it's time to harvest. Here's the thing: a farm is not a factory. We can't just turn up production by flipping a switch. If you want a garden fresh tomato in May we have to start the seeds in February, which is what we are doing. But if you don't tell us in February that you want a tomato in May then when May comes around we won't have it for you.

Fruits and vegetables take time to grow. Some take a long time. We start our own seeds and plant only enough seeds to meet our anticipated demand. If you want delicious vegetables you have to let us know now so that we can start the seeds that will turn into the plants that will produce your food. It all starts now. We are completing our passive solar greenhouse structure which will allow our food to be harvested earlier than most home gardens (and we'll be able to take the produce through the winter!). So even if you grow a garden, a membership in our CSA may be a great asset for your family to cover those weeks in May through mid-July before you begin harvesting your own garden. Last year we had over 1000 tomato plants and were unable to keep up with demand. We turned away restaurants and sold out week after week.

Every CSA in Salt Lake and Davis counties have waiting lists every year. Now is the time to join if you want real food later.

If you wait you will be very, very sad.

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What Makes Jacob's Cove Food So Good?

We had a woman tell us that she thought she hated tomatoes. Then she ate one of ours in a caprese salad at Pizzeria 712. She told us it brought tears to her eyes because it was so good. She had never tasted anything like it.

What makes our tomatoes, melons and other vegetables better than others? The secret is in the seed and the soil. We focus on growing heirloom varieties. What's an heirloom variety? Heirlooms are those seeds that have been passed down for generations because of their superior flavor, nutrition and beauty. But the food they produce is delicate. You'd never be able to pick a ripe heirloom melon and ship it 1000+ miles from Mexico or California. They also come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes which doesn't fit the industrial model of food distribution. But when we grow it here at Jacob's Cove, pick it for you the day you pick it up, the taste is beyond description. You might even cry.

Another secret to our success is feeding the soil. Because of the type of soil here in Utah Valley we need to constantly feed it organic matter. This keeps the Ph regulated, increases the biodiversity of healthy soil microbes and creates a more flavorful, nutritious food. Healthy soil produces healthy plants that resist disease and pests so that we've never had to spray pesticides or herbicides on our crops.

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