#ShoutoutSeptember must include a post about our work interns! In young Caleb Vogel’s third summer of work here at Magnalia Farm, we wanted him to intentionally experience the fruit of his labors. That’s a big deal: Work is harder (though not necessarily...
Among our growing number of students who have come to work and learn this summer is a lad from Washington DC named Titus. His earnestness and kindness made a mark on us. At 14, he is already quite intent about his vocation: he wants to be a design engineer. So he...
Our Village Blacksmith, Scott Smith, stewards an age-old tradition (as his last name suggests his forebears once did). Pounding and bending and twisting in Magnalia’s Village Blacksmith Shoppe, featuring an 1850-style forge that fires up to x degrees using hunks...
Thanks to our Master Gardener Dorothy Clement and her very able apprentices, Laurel and Izzy Bird, and a host of volunteers from Mount Jubilee Ministries and from the Covenant Classical educational network, the Homestead gardens have been more prolific this year than...
Thanks to our herd guru, seasoned farmer Rodney Hardy, Magnalia’s herd is growing! Our black Angus cow named Scottie or Scheffler (named after the golfer for assorted reasons) birthed a spunky calf named Naomi a couple years ago, not long after she first came to our...
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