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Farm Happenings at Saint Isidore Homestead and Permaculture
Thank YOU
It's a bittersweet feeling for us to close our summer 2020 CSA season. Despite the uncertainties of dealing with a terrifying pandemic, we are blessed to have had an excellent growing season. Some crops exceeded our expectations. Some others fell short. We didn't have any major disease issues or da1 read more »
Farmers Helping Farmers
Many of you know of Radell Schrock. He runs one of the most successful sustainable farms in the area, Season's Bounty Farm. His produce is astonishingly beautiful and delicious. Radell is a good old friend and I've always looked at him as an inspiration not only as a farmer but as a human being. I1 read more »
Eggplant
We love growing eggplant. This is one of those crops that took us a while to learn how to grow but, once we figured it out, it became one of our most reliable ones year after year. If you've tried growing eggplant at home you'd know how difficult it is to have it established. The problem is that eg1 read more »
The Cracks
You have surely noticed that we went from a very dry spell to a wet one recently. And while our grass looks green and the ponds are full, our field tomatoes are not happy at all. Excess watering has many negative effects on tomatoes and one of the common ones is cracked fruit. When the plants drink1 read more »
The Crew
To us your CSA box is in many respects a celebration of hard work. And luckily for me, I have a crew that is not afraid of breaking a sweat in a hot field while keeping social distancing. And the best part, they keep their smiles through the day, even behind face masks, for the sheer joy of working1 read more »
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 »
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.