A Gilbert farmer says rising feed costs, diesel prices and drought conditions are putting pressure on local food production.
Scott Heartquist started Heartquist Hollow Farm in Gilbert in 2018 as a homestead. Then the pandemic hit. “We sold through six months of the meat in three weeks… and realized we had a business,” Heartquist said.
He says it has since grown into a full-scale ranch raising beef, sheep, pigs and chickens, complete with its own USDA processing facility in Winkelman, Arizona…