by MAGNALIA | PLANTS & ANIMALS, REFLECTIONS
After a harvest just three weeks ago, our beekeepers here from Honey Bee Abundance say we’ll have another honey harvest in August. ❤️🍯🐝 They’re busy at work! What a common miracle. #MagnaliaDei
by MAGNALIA | PLANTS & ANIMALS, REFLECTIONS
What a crazy run of days at the Homestead: tending to eight newborn lambs, and a boxer pup named Jeb (who has a thing for chickens 🙁). We have also welcomed a newborn calf named “Hannah Vanderbilt,” thus named because our Tiny House resident here Hannah...
by MAGNALIA | PLANTS & ANIMALS, REFLECTIONS
Family and friends, our “Captain of the Homestead Guard,” Jackson, has passed. After his cancer-wrecked, bony frame chased one last delivery truck early yesterday, and I then found him for the first time ever hiding under a bush, I brought him inside and...
by MAGNALIA | PEOPLE, REFLECTIONS
After two wonderful weddings in two weekends at Magnalia Farm, Rachel Van Eerden caught our beloved sous chef taking a break by the sheep barn. Eddie’s the heart of the Homestead! #priceless
by MAGNALIA | PLACES, REFLECTIONS
Camp Paradiso is a re-imagining of an Italian immigrant’s extended-stay, circa 1890 American wilderness camp. It was designed for “glampers” young and old alike. North Carolina has specific historical ties to the Italian culture, including early exploration,...
by MAGNALIA | EVENTS, REFLECTIONS
Merry Christmastide and Happy New Year’s Eve to you and yours! Greetings, friends! I was thinking today about the fact that 2025 was probably the hardest year of our married life in terms of challenges that Rachel and I have traversed, in God’s providence and in His...
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