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Farm Happenings at Saint Isidore Homestead and Permaculture
Salad Mix is Back!
This might sound completely irrelevant to you, but we are so incredibly thrilled to have our salad mix back. The issue is not growing the lettuces but growing them successfully in the relentless heat of the past few weeks. This is a matter of great pride to us. The secret: blocking about 40% of sun1 read more »
Big Box, Little Box
You may have wondered why some weeks your CSA shares are packed in big boxes and other weeks in smaller ones. The answer has not much to do with the size share you have purchased but rather with produce volume. We use two different box sizes: 1/2 bushel and 1 1/9 bushel sizes. By default, we aim to1 read more »
Mid-Summer Smiles
It has been a relentlessly hot five weeks. Less than an inch of rain altogether. We are reaching the point of the season in which the garden looks tired and the weeds take over. Often times, in the midst of what may otherwise seem like chaos, pure beauty is revealed. And we stop, and smile, and con1 read more »
Summer Lettuce
One of our goals for this year was to be able to grow lettuces through the entire season. With some heat-tolerant varieties, constant irrigation, and the use of shade clothes to filter out some sunlight and heat, we have been moderately successful. Yet, the persistent hot weather over the past few1 read more »
Happy Crops, Happy Farmer
It's been quite warm these past few weeks. And the lack of rain has forced us to irrigate more than we would like. For some crops, like lettuce, carrots, beans, and everything that prefers cooler temperatures, we use overhead irrigation. Overhead is not very a very efficient technique in that a lot1 read more »
About the farm
We are a small family farm located in Grottoes, Virginia, serving the city of Harrisonburg and the counties of Rockingham, Augusta, and Greene. We produce high-quality food using sustainable practices and ethical principles of care for the common good. Having witnessed the healing power of good food in dealing with family health issues, we started farming in 2015 in an effort to sharing with others the benefits of fresh, nutritionally-dense food, grown in a clean environment, using integrative agricultural methods. We believe that in order for food to be healthful, the environment in which it grows has to be healthy. To that end, we integrate animal and plant systems in ways that, in their natural interactions, they create an ecological balance leading to abundance and quality.
We grow over 50 different vegetable crops, perennial vegetables and fruits, and raise pastured pork, as well as ducks and chickens, for meat and eggs.
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We grow over 50 different vegetable crops, perennial vegetables and fruits, and raise pastured pork, as well as ducks and chickens, for meat and eggs.