This year our garden is off to a great start. We have been composting and rotating our food scraps for the garden all year. The winter compost has yielded rich dark soil and a plethora of worms! And thanks to my friend, Debra Young, who brought us a trailer load of horse manure, the garden is enjoying even greater nutrients! We have planted corn, several varieties of beans, tomatoes and peppers, peas and okra.  We planted squash, zucchini, cucumbers and eggplant, and of course an herb garden. Yesterday the watermelon was planted and cantaloupe is to follow. It should be a great crop! Hopefully [with a little deterrent I have yet to come up with] our chickens will not eat up all our cantaloupe, tricking me by leaving just the outside shell like they did last year!

Lots of varieties of tomatoes this year.

Isaiah House has a booth at the Georgia Mountain Market located at Old 5 and 282 in Ellijay, across from DQ and up the hill. Hours are 8-4 Friday and Saturday, 12-4 Sunday.

Please come visit our booth and support Isaiah House

After a very hard and long day, one of our residents settles into a hungry man’s meal. And, he takes seconds!

No starving at Isaiah house!

Yesterday my dear friend, Susan McPherson gave me a pregnant Sannen goat. We named her Lucy and she is beautiful. Max thought she was his new playmate and ran her all around for a while. Lucy very quickly found the roof of the goat house.

- Sally Jeffery, Operations Director

Max is a Great Pyrenees and is here to keep an eye out for all of our animals and to protect them from the predators and dangers of the animal kingdom.

Clean-up is always more fun and goes by much faster when everyone pitches in to help. That’s why all of our residents take turns helping out in the kitchen and keeping the common areas clean.

And if your lucky, the Baking Fairies ( in this case, Ed & Sally’s daughter and grand-daughter) will have fresh cupcakes ready when you’re done.