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Farm Happenings at Saint Isidore Homestead and Permaculture
Black Gold
Some of you have heard us say that we primarily grow soil and the rest just happens. We believe our crops are nutritionally dense because they nurture themselves from a nutritionally-dense soil. So, yes, we believe in healthy soil and we take our soil very seriously. By healthy soil we mean a livin1 read more »
Farm Happenings for June 20, 2022
A heat wave hit us this week and most of the remaining spring crops took a toll. Lettuces, in particular, seem to have suffered the most. They bolted and turned a bit bitter. But, as they say in permaculture, the problem is the solution. Instead of sending the lettuce to the compost pile, we fed it1 read more »
The Crew
We are blessed this year to have an enthusiastic, hard-working, crew. Three of them, Jack, Taylor, and Dane, returned to us in March. It was wonderful to have them back as they were familiar with our place and our practices. So, rather than spending days getting to know the place and learning the b1 read more »
The New Boxes
For three years now, we have wrestled with the finding the best possible box to deliver your produce. We originally set with two different size waxed cardboard boxes, which worked relatively well. The problem with the boxes we were using was that they were either too big (1 1/9 bushel) or too small1 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.