Heart Of Gist Mayhaw Orchard

07/19/2026

A few days late posting this. It's been a couple of years since we've gotten this much water in the orchard. The trees are loving it!!

07/05/2026

A little pork loin glaze with Sassy's Pantry apricot habanero pepper jelly and a dash of Mayhaw Sunfire hot sauce. Stay tuned!!

06/19/2026

If y'all get a chance to try this hot sauce you won't be sorry! Just right sweet with some nice rich heat. It's good y'all!!!

When your “Mayhaw” supplier Heart Of Gist Mayhaw Orchard sends you a quick pic of “MAYHAW SUNFIRE”. the original Mayhaw hot sauce made from the berries at their family orchard. Full circle.

06/07/2026

Melisa Meaux Lockwood named this tree Thelma. She will be the one to tell the story of where the name came from lol. It has been in our orchard for 3 years. Bill Moore and I found this tree on an excursion in the Gist woods so it is called a "chance" tree. There is only a chance that this tree will produce as well as established varieties. I estimate Thelma to be 8-10 years old (I could be way off either way lol).

Thelma is a very vigorous growing mayhaw tree (all the limbs laying there were pruned this morning) and we are hoping she makes a good producer. If she doesn't produce abundant fruit then Thelma should make an excellent rootstock. Then we will decide which variety we will graft onto it.

Thank you to Bill Moore and Louisiana Mayhaw Association for everything you have taught us!!

06/06/2026

These are 3 trees grafted from our Memaw tree last year to some wild native rootstock. If all goes well and we do everything correctly we are hoping they will want to have a few blooms next year. 🤞🏼

05/25/2026

Not quite 3 months growth on these grafted trees. We'll take it!

Edit to add: those are hossinator tomatoes and they are really good!!

05/15/2026

Cedar rust on the Maxine. I need to do a better job on my spraying.

Edit to add: This is the only cedar rust affected berry I found out of 30 trees so we are happy with that result. Hopefully this winter we can keep bacteria and fungus at bay and have a good crop.

05/02/2026

This red champ is putting on a few mayhaws. In a couple more years it will be full of these big berries!

04/19/2026

Memaw showing out! See the big clusters of berries? And so sweet!!One of the reasons this is our favorite tree in the mayhaw patch!

04/18/2026

Memaws Legacy will always be the heart of our orchard