What is Happening at the Farm?

We are Susan and Charlie. We live in our homestead farm we named “Little Peace of Heaven”, where we are growing as much of our food as possible using regenerative growing practices. The soil is like the gut of the Earth and we believe it is imperative to bring back the soil’s life to nourish the plants that therefore nurture our body.

In 2012 I taught a class in cancer fighting foods. The research I needed to teach the class reignited my passion to improve our health. It also sparked the desire to build a vegetable garden with more nutritious food, and minimize processed foods.

In 2015 we purchased a 12 acre farm to grow our own nutrient dense foods, with the goal to turn the clay soil into black gold. Upon Charlie’s retirement, in 2018, we started building our home, and prepared the soil before moving in in 2020.

Today, we love being able to grow delicious rich food that has not been exposed to any herbicides or pesticides. Our yields have doubled each year and the quality and flavor of what we are growing is incomparable; bringing us back in time to the way our ancestors did before the use of chemicals. The joy of loving the land and learning the ways of Mother Nature is truly awesome and challenging at times, but always rewarding.

We don’t sell any produce. We grow for ourselves and we enjoy sharing what we have learned through the years with our family, our friends, and there children; and with anyone coming to the farm interested in improving their health and learning about how to grow their own food using ecological approach and different techniques of composting for delicious organic food by using permaculture.

 We officially started the Community Garden from scratch in Fall 2022! New to permaculture and no-dig gardening, we were able to have hands-on experiences in growing our own vegetables using the different techniques of composting, gardening, with an ecological approach to regenerate and nourish the soil through the seasons!  
Thank you so very much Susan & Charlie for your expertise, your guidance, your support, your help, your kindness and making this community project happened! It won't have been the same without you!
& Thank you to anyone who joined us on this journey during the past couple of years so far!
So along with discovering the "Little Peace of Heaven" Homestead Farm, you and your family will have the unique opportunity to experience right on site, and develop your own gardening skills while learning the mindset behind permaculture, no-dig gardening, and composting, as a team and as a developing community!

Contact us and join us for a tour, or volunteering days!

Happy Growing! 

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