Peter Van Eerden, fresh from USMC Basic School, became the first to hit the ice-filled water of the Homestead’s new cold plunge tank. Teddy Roosevelt famously said: Bodily vigor is good…. A jump into the Cold Plunge, just around the corner from Roosevelt...
Artifacts are little things that remind us of grander things, visible elements connected by a thread to elements invisible. But sometimes they’re there, treasured artifacts all around us, and we forget to notice. Beauty-hunter Timothy Harrison wanders the ground...
Oh, how full of gratitude we are for the work of the “Heroes” and staff at Mount Jubilee Ministries for joining in with us to plant the 2024 Spring Community Garden at Magnalia Farm. At the end of the day, it left us singing stanzas from one of our...
With my excess holiday chub and my knee-high yellow farm boots, my family is calling me the Homestead’s very own Paddington Bear. (But they’re perfect for a rainstorm like this, and the cows like them, though the sheep less so.) Fashion follows function on...
A beacon is regarded by many people as a symbol. But it’s more. If it does its job, it’s also functional in the way it warns and welcomes travelers. It’s inspirational, in that it can be a harbinger of hope. And it’s motivational, too: those who have been helped by a...
Our daughter Elizabeth has blessed us by helping to coordinate guest logistics at Magnalia. What a joy it has been to host people from near and far, carrying with them stories and points of view very different from our own: people of many colors, creeds and...
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