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Farm Happenings at Saint Isidore Homestead and Permaculture
The Crew 2023
What an awesome crew we have! They are attentive, reliable, eager to learn, and really fun to work with. Jacob, Lizzy, Taylor, Tobin, and Mattias are the core of our operation. There are many steps involved in growing your food and these folks do everything on the farm from planting, weeding, harve1 read more »
Resilience
The reason you had not seen a lot of cucumbers in your boxes this year is that a cucumber-beetle infestation unfortunately killed our first crop (an entire hoop house). If we were a cucumber-only farm that would be a big problem (or maybe not as we would probably have blasted the entire farm with h1 read more »
A tribute to Mapacha
This week was a tough one on the farm. We had to put down our beloved farm dog, Mapacha. She came with the property when we moved in eight years ago, so sometimes she made us feel like we were her tenants and we had to abide by her rules. But most of the time she was the sweetest dog and her playfu1 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 »
One crop you won't see in your CSA box
The cooler spring has most crops looking beautiful despite the drought. There is plenty of green growing in the gardens and plenty of green growing on the edges. And one edge crop that is absolutely thriving this year is the infamous poison ivy. It really is a beautiful plant, though. But it is a p1 read more »
Why we Farm
We started farming nine 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 but1 read more »
Farm Happenings for Second Week
We are reusing the boxes from last year. Thank you all of you for your commitment to reducing waste! They are beautiful, easy to handle, and very convenient for us to stack in the cooler and the van. This size box fits most of our CSA sizes and we don’t feel like we are packing your produce t1 read more »
Spring Lush
There has not been one single morning in 2023 that I had not worn a sweater when I go out to do early farm chores. I love it, though. And, while some of the crops in the ground don't like these cool mornings, some others are in absolute delight. If there is such a thing a arugula heaven, the Shenan1 read more »
Farm Happenings for September 19, 2022
It's a bittersweet feeling for us to close our summer 2022 CSA season. We were blessed with great weather and, with only a few exceptions, all crops did well. We have also been blessed with an awesome farm crew that kept on task week after week. Particularly, I’m grateful for their extra help1 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.