A Closer Look at the Winter Harvest
December 18, 2025 • Debbie Pullen
The plunging temperatures and icy walkways of winter often coincide with a spike in food insecurity. Thanks to the protection of our high tunnels and caterpillar tunnels, Gaining Ground grows food year-round, ensuring fresh, nutritious produce reaches our hunger relief partners throughout the colder months. This fall, with funding from a Massachusetts Food Security Infrastructure grant, we installed heat in two of the farm’s high tunnels. Heat will allow us to grow a wider variety of vegetables over the winter. This year, we are experimenting with early spring broccoli and onions to offer more crop variety from January through March. Learn more about winter growing.
