Farm Happenings at Saint Isidore Homestead and Permaculture
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Farm Happenings at Saint Isidore Homestead and Permaculture

Black Gold

Posted on June 24th, 2022
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

Posted on June 17th, 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

Posted on June 10th, 2022
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

Posted on June 3rd, 2022
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 »