Growing

Lots of tomatoes and peppers getting ready to go in the ground

Soil Blocks

Bottom side of soil block press
Soil block press
Pepper seedling in soil block

Starting Seeds

To save space, you can start seeds in soil blocks. You use a small press that you pack soil into that creates these little cubes. Once the plants sprout and start to grow you can transplant to a larger container, until it’s time to plant them in the ground.

Tomato seeds starting to sprout
120 seeds planted in this small space
Time to transplant

More info on soil blocks:

https://growagoodlife.com/soil-blocks-for-growing-seedlings-2/

Soon the male goats will meet the ladies. In about 5 months we’ll have some baby goats! Then we can do some goat yoga.

Brutus
Fred

Giant Sunflowers

7 – 10 foot sunflowers from 2018

Melons

Massive watermelons harvested in 2018.

Challah

Fresh loaf of braided challah bread

Find the recipe here: https://www.theforestfeast.com/blog/whenever-i-am-working-from-home-on-fridays-which

Our goats

Stargazer and Wild-Thing in their new home June 2018

Just a man out-standing in his field!

Julia & Josh recreate “American Gothic”

After living in Ocean Beach, San Diego, CA we decided to pack up our belongings, drive across the country and purchase our first house in central Virginia to start our organic homestead.

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