Reviews for: Healthy Harvest Farm

We have been members of Healthy Harvest for several summers now, and we have nothing but good things to say! It is like having your own private farmers' market. Dave and Sara make it so simple to eat locally and well. We love that we can choose only what we know we like, but we have also experimented and found some new favorites. We appreciate the cards that tell you how to store and prepare your produce, and the many delicious recipes so that you are never left wondering what to do with a vegetable. It is a good amount for our family of four each week, though we do have to ration the amazing baby tomatoes! Sara and Dave are a pleasure to talk with and we feel so blessed to know the people growing our food. We look forward to the first distribution every spring, and are always a bit bummed when the last one is over. We are so glad we found Healthy Harvest!

We love the amazing quality and diversity from Healthy Harvest Farm and how delightful, knowledgeable, and welcoming Sara and Dave are each week. It really is a treasure to be part of this CSA and our kids look forward to going to pickup each week. We've tried celeriac, yellow watermelon, etc. and never eaten better. We love the commitment to sustainable farming & healthy eating that comes w/ a membership. We thought we would miss the spontaneity of just going to farmer's markets each week, but ended up preferring this way (you still get a lot of choice, but the regularity and community are such bonuses). Very much looking forward to next summer! :)

We highly recommend this farm share. Dave and Sarah have been super helpful when we started and the flexibility of choosing which vegetables or herbs we wanted has been wonderful for our family of picky eaters. Our 6 year old daughter likes to come along to choose vegetables and play a bit. Sugar snap peas, cauliflower, and watermelon were her favorites last Summer.

It was April of 2012 when we started thinking about joining a CSA. Of course, we had a pile of questions. Sarah and Dave tackled them with ease. They promised we would not starve if there was no rain or if wild life cleaned out the crops. They assured us that the veggies would taste great. We bought in and it has been a great experience the entire time. Even when the weather has not always cooperated, our shares consistently exceeded our expectations.

I have managed a CSA and been a member of several CSAs, and the Healthy Harvest CSA is one of the best out there. They offer top-quality produce and the highest degree of flexibility in selecting what you want each week that I've encountered in a CSA, including working around summer travel schedules. Dave and Sara are very professional and friendly, and it is enjoyable to see them at pickup each week. They are excellent local farmers who I am proud to support.

Being relatively new to Central Pennsylvania, I began to look for a CSA experience shortly after moving here in the fall of 2013. Taking time and initiative, I studied a number of CSA's from websites, word of mouth, tastings and I settled on Healthy Harvest. What an amazing summer! I've lived in various parts of the country and this was my third CSA experience, on top of having my own small plot to farm for a number of years. Being with Sara and Dave was a joy...there was not a vegetable that I did not enjoy or a week that I didn't look forward to going to choose my '8' vegetables/fruits...in fact, I organized my work schedule around the visit to the pick up spot in State College. The vegetables/fruits were always appropriately packaged, the choices exciting and the recipes were creative and 'gourmet'. Can't wait until next June!!!

Excellent CSA experience for two years now, during both summer/fall and winter shares! I would highly recommend Healthy Harvest Farm, because the produce is always excellent, and the farmers are extremely friendly and knowledgeable. Additionally, members can choose exactly what they want each week, and have access to tons of recipes each week for the veggies available.

This year was my first year with Healthy Harvest and I can't say enough about them. They take pride in their produce and the quality was amazing. Not once was I disappointed! They have the perfect mix of less common veggies for us to try and more common veggies that my pickier husband will eat. They also don't just hand you a box each week like many CSAs do, but allow you to choose which selections you want for the week, which I really appreciate. Sara and Dave are so friendly and are both there at every pickup, chatting and offering tips on that week's choices, and there are always recipes available for that week's offerings. They also have a great selection of recipes on their website, and everything I've tried has been wonderful! I just signed up to participate again next year!

We have been with Healthy Harvest CSA two summers now and I am really looking forward to the third. Dave and Sara do a wonderful job and improve on all the nuances of a well managed CSA. The fields are organized and interesting to visit on open days. The vegetables are always fresh and beautiful. We never are disappointed with quantity or quality. The distributions are a fun experience being set up like a market so you can see and make your choices. It is also an opportunity to socialize with the farmers and other members. Sara and Dave are always present and beaming with fulfillment of their excellent work.

Amazing sweet potatoes, beautiful red peppers, crisp lettuce, crunchy sweet peas, delicious green beans, and sweeeet carrots. Those are just a few of the reasons why we loved being a member of Healthy Harvest Farm this season. Sara and Dave are incredible farmers and just plain nice folks who really care about their members. Their free choice distribution system allowed us to take more of the things we love and a little less of the veggies that are not our favorites. We would often visit their webpage for the extensive list of great recipes. And, maybe best of all, our daughter was far more likely to eat her veggies if we told her that Sara and Dave grew them.

This is a great CSA! Delicious food, convenient pickups, lots of variety, and the most attentive help I can imagine from Dave and Sara. Every time we arrive, they have tips about the food, new recipes to try (which have been delicious), and a new effort to make the experience more convenient for us. Highly recommended!

We first met Dave and Sara working with them at another farm about 8 years ago and were just thrilled when they had the opportunity to start their own CSA. So far we've been loving the vegetables we receive from Healthy Harvest Farm and we love the recipe choices that Sara puts out each week.

We've belonged to 3 different CSA's and Healthy Harvest is indeed the best of these. Dave and Sara produce a variety of great quality produce and the share is quite generous. They are also both there each week to greet us and chat. We will sign up again for next spring for sure! And we love the recipes.

We met Dave and Sara when we were involved with another local CSA - they worked hard to bring good food to the harvest and to get to know all of the people involved with the CSA! We learned a lot from them as they shared their love of the land with us and helped us to understand how the food is grown and nurtured under their hands. We were really thrilled that they decided to start their own CSA and jumped on board! We think they are great caring people and support their efforts!

I have been in a couple of CSAs in State College, and my favorite by far was when Sara and Dave were the farmers. This is their family business and they really take pride in their work. Their produce is great and they are careful stewards of the land. Picking up the share is the highlight of my week because I get to catch up with Sara and Dave and hear about how things are going with the farm. They probably get tired of my questions, but they never show it.

One thing I really like about their approach is that they let you have some choices in what goes into the share. If you don't like beets (or your kids don't), no problem, choose something else that you like more. This cuts down on waste and makes the share a better value. I also like that that Healthy Harvest distributes all of their food to their CSA members. I have been in other CSAs that sell off their pristine produce to grocery stores and then offer the medium quality stuff to the CSA. I am glad that Healthy Harvest doesn't do that. It feels more like the real spirit of a CSA when you are buying an equal share of what's grown. I also like supporting young farmers who are committed to our community. I think it is the best way to take ensure that we will always have a good supply of locally grown food.

It was a pleasure getting food grown by Dave and Sara when they were farmers for a CSA in the past. It is a delight to look forward to what their own CSA will yield. It was always great picking food up from them: the food was great and we trusted absolutely that it was grown organically and with care, because Sara and Dave were completely trustworthy and their integrity absolute. Additionally, Sara and Dave were then as now always a treat to spend time with, full of goodwill, energy, generosity. I am glad to have joined their CSA, and recommend doing so without the least hesitation.

I was sooo excited to hear that Dave and Sara have started the Healthy Harvest Farm CSA in Bellefonte and I am grateful for the chance to be able to once again enjoy their produce. I was a member of a previous farm where they grew and harvested the most wonderful, flavorful, fresh, and nice looking products. I saw firsthand how they worked the fields, planted, cared for and purposely harvested their produce so that it was at peak quality for distribution. Their care and concern didn't just start with the soil and seeds, it went much deeper as they considered their future partners when choosing what to grow and harvest. As well as taking a much deeper concern to produce quality local foods that helped sustain a healthy individual or family to the much bigger picture of helping to sustain a healthy earth that will provide over and over again. In keeping with their concern for the products they grew and the earth they partnered with they extended that to those who trusted them enough to invest in them. Their joy of what they did was infectious as they talked with each member at distribution and their Saturday get down and dirty (if you wanted to) "work" days. They were always willing to educate, share and just get to know all those that became a member. I cannot say enough about Sara and Dave and their produce. WELCOME BACK to being the farmers of my CSA.

Sara and Dave are amazing. We first met them in 2003 and are so excited to be part of their new CSA. The variety and quality of the produce they provide has always been fabulous. And they work hard to make sure that there is always a wide selection, while allowing folks a degree of freedom to make their own selections. That is a huge plus when you have kids.

Growing our own food has been a passion of mine for decades. I've written many articles over the years about home farming. These days, however, we're only able to grow stuff at home on a very small scale. So it is always a delight to talk with these farmers about their plans and ideas. Belonging to Healthy Harvest means that we can eat local and sustainably all the time. The best thing about Sara and Dave, however, is the strong spirit of community that being part of their CSA provides. Again, I can't stress enough how very excited we are to be part of their new CSA!