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Farm Happenings at Saint Isidore Homestead and Permaculture
Happy Crops, Happy Farmer
It's been quite warm these past few days. 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 »
Why we farm
We started farming ten years ago because my wife and I wanted to make sure that we were eating the best possible food available. At the time, one of our children was struggling with severe eczema and it seemed that every physician we saw was only prescribing medicine to alleviate the symptoms but n1 read more »
Missing a beet?
Even though we have a few years of experience packaging customized boxes, we still find ourselves making mistakes at the box assembly line. We are trying hard to minimize packaging errors but our commitment is to you. So please let us know if/when something is missing in your boxes. We will be happ1 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.