by MAGNALIA | PEOPLE, REFLECTIONS
Eddie’s been talking with us for months about coming to Table for the Lord’s Supper. So, we made him a short form catechism to help guide us in conversation. Last night he surprised us at the dinner table by telling us to close our eyes — and when we...
by MAGNALIA | PEOPLE, REFLECTIONS
When life gets hard, community matters. A LOT. Just yesterday, our longtime farmer friend Rodney Hardy delivered some special feed to us that Rosie loves, and then new friends at Reverence Farms helped us into the evening as we worked to source a better milking...
by MAGNALIA | PEOPLE, REFLECTIONS
#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...
by MAGNALIA | PEOPLE, REFLECTIONS
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...
by MAGNALIA | PEOPLE, REFLECTIONS
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...
by MAGNALIA | PEOPLE, REFLECTIONS
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...
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