Our Products:  We think Ohio is a pretty special place to live and luckily we’re not alone! Many talented artists and craftspeople make beautiful one-of-a-kind products through cottage industry. We’ve been about books for quite a while here at the farm and now we are proud to offer a gift and product line we feel partners perfectly with our books and with our life philosophy as well. Please take time to look around the Farm Market. And since our gift product line consists of items that are not mass produced, they are being offered in limited amounts, so order early! 

HEART and HEARTH - CHRISTMAS on the FARM  Brand New! We hope you’ll be as excited about reading and giving this new holiday book as we have been during its creation. Heart and Hearth – Christmas on the Farm, just like the best Christmas stockings, is stuffed full of all kinds of neat things – recollections and recipes, simple, homemade gift ideas and craft projects – all sparked with a sprinkling of humor and illustrated with whimsical full-color illustrations. Like some of the best things in life, Heart and Hearth – Christmas on the Farm is difficult to describe. It celebrates the simple things that we enjoy out here on the farm: family, dogs and cats and goats and geese and wildlife and the changing seasons, and most of all: Christmas!

Here is a sampling of chapters:

Heart and Home – a patchwork of memories; Deck the Halls, Walls and Anything That Stands Still; Let it Snow, Snow, Snow; Christmas down in the Red Barn; Meowy Christmas and Yappy Holidays. Recipes abound in Farmhouse Brunch, Recipes for Wintry Days, Christmas in the Country Kitchen and Save Room for Dessert – and all are generously illustrated with Norma Thomas Herr’s charming watercolors and my own colored pencil drawings.   

You might like to try your hand at our daughter Ellen’s Blue Ribbon Chili – it won first place at the county fair! A pan full of Good Neighbor Sue’s Cinnamon Rolls fills the house with the cinnamon-y, buttery good smell of baking. Try my Lemon Shortbread or my sister Hope’s Hot Buttered Rum to chase away the chill of a winter’s night.

      Heart and Hearth – Christmas on the Farm is a spiral-bound gift book brimming with country wisdom and humor, recipes, easy projects and gift how-tos, and even a little poetry, in chapters with titles like: Not Even a Mouse; Deck the Halls, Walls and Anything Else that Stands Still; Let it Snow, Snow, Snow; Born in a Barn and Meowy Christmas and Yappy Holidays

     When the holiday season arrives, I polish up the jars of jelly and bottles of herb vinegars lined up in the pie safe since summer, and ready them for Christmas giving. While creating special gifts for family or friends, my thoughts turn fondly to each recipient and I hope each feels the warmth and affection that infuses every gift.

     Many recipes from my collection and those lovingly provided by friends and family contain more than measurements and ingredients. Fond memories are found throughout the book in chapters such as: Farmhouse Brunch, Christmas in the Country Kitchen, Save Room for Dessert and Recipes for Wintry Days.

     Togetherness, laughter, handmade gifts and home-cooked food, music, a fire on the hearth – all are at the heart of Christmas on the farm. Home, family and friends, animals and nature, these are the things that bring richness to life. Being able to celebrate these things through my writing – that too is a gift from God, and at the same time my gift to give.

300 pages with sturdy coil binding

Book: Heart and Hearth – Christmas on the Farm

$21.95

Signed by author? YesNo

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The Chickens of Heritage Heart Farm Mug - The Chickens of Heritage Heart Farm are featured on our exclusive mugs! A wide variety of rare breed hens and roosters call our farm home. Meet a few of the brood featured on our exclusive Heritage Heart Farm ceramic mugs. A perfect gift partner with our newest book, or buy one for yourself so you can sip a hot cup of tea with Ruby Red the Buckeye hen, Dandy the Dominique rooster or Fife the banty Americauna rooster while reading Heart and Hearth. Arrives gift boxed. 

Chicken Mug – 11 ounce, white ceramic. Hand wash recommended

Heritage Heart Farm Mug

$8.95

Heritage Heart Farm Cookie Cutters 

AS SEEN IN HOBBY FARMS HOME MAGAZINE! Jan/Feb 2010!

Meet the animals from down in the red barn at Heritage Heart Farm! 

The greatest thing about these limited edition cookie cutters is that they are painstakingly handmade by northwest Ohio tinsmith, Mike Runyon. Exclusive to Heritage Heart Farm, each cookie cutter is fashioned after special things on our farm, especially the feathered and furred, many of which are featured throughout Heart and Hearth - Christmas on the Farm.  Available singly or as a set of three.

As for quality – each of these handmade Cookie Cutters is created by Mike one at a time from heavy tin. A highly respected artisan in his field, he creates our original motifs based on a classic circa 1880 style cutter. The handle is stiffened and soldered onto the back plate. This is one solid cookie cutter and not a machine in sight. Mike doesn’t even have email! If you are a baker, he guarantees you will wear out before one of his cookie cutters does. If you are a collector, know that cookie cutter enthusiasts from all over seek out Mike’s work because of his attention to detail and authenticity. Mike is a fulltime tinsmith and is known for his exacting specification when recreating traditional American tin ware. Each is signed by the artist, comes with its own little story on the tag, is packed in a nest of excelsior and tied up with a country gingham bow.

Boswell, Rutherford and Moody

Boswell the Gander. A very proud Chinese goose, Old Bos came to us a few years ago. He is no spring chicken, but despite his years he hasn’t slowed down a bit. He is the self-appointed guardian of the barnyard, yet he has a soft heart, too. Any time a brood of babies is around, he’s right there making sure they don’t come to any harm. 

Boswell the China Goose Cookie Cutter  

(3 1/2 x 5 1/2-inches)

Rutherford the Goat. Rutherford is a Nubian and anyone who has ever spent any time with one will tell you that although they are big boys, they are the crybabies of the goat world. Rutherford is famous because of his tendency to put up a fuss at suppertime. He was on National Public Radio's Soundbites.

We also have Filbert Thistle – an Alpine cross – who, along with Rutherford, started out as a 4-H cart goat – and quickly retired. And there’s little Lacey, a Nigerian dwarf goat. She may be small, but she’s the real boss in the goat pen.

Rutherford the Nubian Goat Cookie Cutter  

(5 1/2 x4 1/2-inches)

Moody the Cat. We have been owned by a variety of cats over the years and all of them still live in a special place in our hearts. This cookie cutter not only depicts Moody, one of our sassy striped boys, but all our cats, here with us and remembered.

Moody the Cat Cookie Cutter

 (5 x 4-inches)

Dandy, Mrs. Featherbottom, Peeps and Ol' Tractor

  

 

 

Dandy the Dominique Rooster

Mrs. Featherbottom the Buff Orpington Hen

Peeps the Chick

Vintage Tractor Cookie Cutter (3 x 5 1/2-inches)

Cookie Cutter – Goat

$12.95

Cookie Cutter – Goose	$12.95
Cookie Cutter – Cat	$12.95
Cookie Cutter – Rooster	$12.95
Cookie Cutter – Hen	$12.95
Cookie Cutter – Chick	$10.95
Cookie Cutter – Tractor	$12.95

OUR OTHER BOOKS:

Secret of the Lockkeeper’s House –Young adult readers (and adult readers, too) will keep pages turning as they venture back to the rollicking days of the Ohio canals with cousins Tessa, Will and Patrick in Georgia Kohart’s time travel mystery Secret of the Lockkeeper’s House.

Suddenly the lazy summer is transformed for Tessa and her cousin Will as they are transported back to 1850 during the time of the Ohio canals. Kohart has an excellent ear for adolescent conversation and also an excellent command of the history of the Miami and Erie Canal, which she interweaves into a compelling story for young readers. 
- Kate Templeton Fox, Ohioana Review

 paperback, 178 pages

Book: Secret of the Lockkeeper's House	$11.95
Signed by author? YesNo   Secret of the Lockkeeper's House Teaching Companion  In conjunction with Secret of the Lockkeeper's House, The Secret of the Lockkeeper's House Teaching Companion is now available. It is a comprehensive collection of activities that further enhances characters Tessa, Will and Patrick's canal experience. Included are crossword, word search and other puzzles, fill-in-the-blanks, and many more reading and social studies activities, plus further research and reading resources, and a full-color diagram that explains in simple terms how a lock works. Coil bound and all pages are reproducible.    Book: Secret of the  Lockkeeper's House  Teaching Companion    $21.95
Signed by author? YesNo

A Heritage of the Heart – Join nurse Elizabeth Hudson as she travels back in the past and learns not only about life on the Miami and Erie Canal, but much about herself in this touching novel A Heritage of the Heart.

The past lives on the pages of Georgia Kohart’s A Heritage of the Heart. Through the character Elizabeth Hudson, we are drawn into another era, a time when canal boats slid through the untamed woods of Ohio. It is as if Kohart pulled the curtain of the woods back so that we may take a peek at the lives of some of the early settlers. We see how they lived, ate, celebrated, traveled and mourned. Through these characters we learn that history happens in the everyday business of living.  - Jane Nice, B.S., M.A.: English Education, Purdue University

paperback, 158 pages

Book: Heritage of the Heart	$10.95
Signed by author? YesNo

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Packaging:

Remember when packages used to come in the mail all wrapped up and tied up with a string? We do, too! We want you to feel that same delight when your package arrives from Heritage Heart Farm. In addition, we want to keep our countryside green and growing. Our little way of helping is making sure as many as possible of our packing and shipping products are recycled and/or recyclable and reusable! Remember Mom keeping the boxes from one Christmas to the next? Way to go, Mom!

We Make it Easier to be Green:

Boxes – Our shipping cartons are lined with 20-30% recycled material and they are recyclable.

Packing Peanuts – The protective packing peanuts that surround your order are absolutely biodegradable because they are made of 100% cornstarch. Simply dump them into a sink full of warm water and they will quickly dissolve and rinse cleanly down the drain. They won’t end up in a landfill and it’s another way to keep our farmers growing corn.

Packing Tissue – Our natural kraft packing tissue is manufactured with 90% recycled fibers.

Ribbons and Ties – Many of our decorative ribbons are manufactured from biodegradable cotton. Bows can be recurled and used again.

Raffia – We use both kinds. Natural raffia is a plant fiber and biodegradable. The colored raffia is made from Rayon, but both are reusable. Reuse our raffia on your own gift packages and tags. It works well for tying up gangly garden plants, biodegrading after a season. Hang natural raffia from tree branches in the spring and many birds will snatch up strands for nest making.