BY FREY’S HAND, BOUNTY GROWS
A family-built farm and workshop in Newburg, Pennsylvania.
Built from the soil up.
We found an affordable place for our family to live—and began transforming ordinary ground into a farm, workshop, and future we could build together.
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We’re building Heathen Farms one season, one project, and one hard-earned lesson at a time—and we’d love for you to be part of it.
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WE DIDN’T MOVE HERE TO START A FARM
We were searching for one thing: an affordable home with enough room for our family.
By chance, the place we found sat on agricultural land. It wasn’t a working farm—just open grass, cluttered corners, and possibility.
We didn’t inherit a homestead or arrive with a large budget. We began with what we had, learned as we went, and slowly turned ordinary ground into Heathen Farms.
We didn’t start with much. We started together.
BUILT BY HAND.
BUILT WITH WHAT WE HAD.
We couldn’t afford to buy a finished farm, so we learned to build one. Discarded pallets became fencing and compost bins. Free slab wood became raised beds. Reclaimed windows and lumber became shelters, workspaces, and growing infrastructure. Most of it was built by our family, one project at a time.
WE DIDN’T WAIT UNTIL WE HAD EVERYTHING.
WE BEGAN WITH WHATEVER WAS WITHIN REACH.
THEN THE LAND CAME ALIVE
The first garden beds changed everything.
We improved the soil, started seeds beneath grow lights, planted flowers for pollinators, and learned through every success and every mistake.
The children helped plant, water, gather, and harvest. They watched bare ground become vegetables, herbs, flowers, insects, and food they could carry into the house with their own hands.
What began as rented grass slowly became a living classroom, a source of nourishment, and the foundation of Heathen Farms.
We weren’t simply growing crops. We were growing a different life.
FROM OUR SOIL
TO LOCAL TABLES
Growing food was the beginning.
Today our gardens produce greens, beets, radishes, tomatoes, herbs, flowers, and other seasonal harvests raised with hands-on care.
What we grow moves from our soil to local tables through our farm stand and farmers markets. Every basket carries the story of the land, the work, and the family that raised it.
Small harvests. Local food. Grown by a family you can meet.
MADE HERE, NOT MASS PRODUCED
Heathen Farms is also a family workshop.
We turn wood, fabric, stone, wire, reclaimed materials, and our own ideas into useful goods with character.
Our market tables have held hand-burned rune hangers, jewelry, reusable unpaper towels, garden pieces, seasonal decorations, and self-published coloring books inspired by the North.
No two pieces—or market days—are ever exactly alike.
Made slowly. Made personally. Made by our family.
THE FAMILY BEHIND THE FARM
Heathen Farms was never built to pull our family away from one another.
It was built so we could work, learn, create, and grow together.
Our children help plant seeds, gather harvests, create products, explore the woods, and experience the satisfaction of making something with their own hands.
Our faith and seasonal traditions keep us connected to nature, our heritage, and one another—from gathering natural materials in the forest to building our family Yule log together.
The farm is what we are building. The family is why we are building it.
COME SEE WHAT WE’RE BUILDING
Heathen Farms is still growing—one garden bed, one handmade product, and one market day at a time. Explore what we make, see what is coming from the garden, or visit us locally and meet the family behind it all.
-Built by hand in Newburg, Pennsylvania.