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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 »
The Boxes
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 »
Gardening in May
The weather has been absolutely perfect for gardening during the month of May. Comfortable temperatures during the days, cool nights, and good spaced-out rain have made farming and gardening quite a joyful experience this year. I hope you have had a chance to plant at least some flowers, but if tha1 read more »
Week 1
We're not entirely sure whether this lettuce belongs in a salad bowl or a flower vase. This spring we have been blessed with fabulous warm weather and good rain, which, added to our awesome living soil, is making our farm feel and look like the Garden of Eden. We are grateful that we are st1 read more »
Thank You
It's a bittersweet feeling for us to close our summer 2023 CSA season. Except for the drought, we were blessed with great weather and most crops did well. We have also been blessed with an awesome farm crew that kept on task week after week. We are thankful to Friendly City Food Co-op for allowing1 read more »
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 »
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.