Locations & Facilitators
Ms Milly
Milly studied college-level art and is a self-taught lover of history. She has several years experience co-chairing homeschool groups.
Ms Karen
Karen has a degree in music education and experience working as a teacher, mechanical engineer, and bookstore manager. Her passions include meteorology and gardening.
Ms Sarah
Sarah has a degree in biology and is starting her own farm from the ground up! She has helped create and manage homeschool groups for many years.
Crimora, VA
Our Augusta County location, also the home of Ms. Milly and her family, is conveniently located between Waynesboro and Harrisonburg. The sun porch offers a lovely space in which we have created our own version of the old one-room schoolhouse. The large table is perfect for group projects while the cozy corner across the room is ideal for nesting down with a good book. While at our Augusta branch, the kids enjoy plenty of room to run in the spacious backyard as well as access to playground and sports equipment. The flowerbeds and vegetable garden provide an opportunity for participants to learn from Ms. Milly’s green thumb! The family's three Nigerian pygmy goats, Twilight, Sage, and Rosemary, will offer lots of distraction with their cute antics, but hopefully will also provide us with some amazing milk so our students will have the opportunity to try their hand at cheese making.
Arrington, VA
Our Neslon County location, home to Ms Sarah’s family, is located a few miles south of Lovingston, and is more than worth the drive. Having just moved in a year ago, there is still quite a bit of work to do before we can boast the 18 acres as a functioning farm. Long term participants will have the opportunity to watch that transformation unfold and get their own hands dirty along the way! In the meantime, learners can sit for a lesson under the exposed, hand-hewn beams of the living room built in the 1850’s. There is a spacious modern (but not too modern!) kitchen addition that is a perfect spot for students to work together to create amazing lunches. Like many homes of the era farmhouse does not have a clothes dryer or a dishwasher. Our students will learn how to be resourceful and work together as they wash their lunch dishes by hand, then pin the damp kitchen towels on the line to dry in the afternoon sun. When it's cold we keep warm by the wood stove and when it's hot we cool our toes in the small creek that runs through the property. Woods to explore, a creek to wade through, plenty of open space to run, and friends to sit by the fire and study beside…what more could a kid ask for in a home away from homeschool?