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...
Pickleball has taken America (and the world) by storm. Invented in the Northwest, it is is a racket sport in which two players or four players use a smooth-faced paddle to hit a perforated, hollow plastic ball over a 34-inch-high net until one side is unable to return...
Many thanks to Paul Van Eerden, Jack Hobson, Joshua Van Eerden, Joel Germeroth, Peter Van Eerden, Caleb Vogel, Joel Bowman, Edison Van Eerden and Bobby (“the Beast” or “Sir Robert”) Borkowski for their efforts to cut, split and stack firewood in log barns...
In between Magnalia’s 22-box community garden and the grounds of Narnia Cottage, there’s a (usually) dry creek. It’s comprised of river rock, quarried just a few miles from this place at the Vulcan Quarry. At a recent prayer gathering for Magnalia community...
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...
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