About our Farm:
This is the 'official' site of Shekinah Farm. A family farm and home to many animals and people! We hope you enjoy your visit. Let me start by explaining the name of our farm. Shekinah is a hebrew word meaning Yahweh (G-d) dwells here. When we moved here we invited Yahweh to dwell here with us, since it was He that made it possible for us to have our farm. We bought our place in November, 1999 and we are learning everyday about how things are on a farm and how to rely on the Father and the Son, Yeshua, to get us through each day.

Shekinah Farm is a 9 acre gentleman's farm with a very small 4 bedroom brick home, barn, 7 fenced acres of pasture and a pond. We are located in North Alabama about 3 miles south of the Tennessee border. Since moving here we have built a chicken house, tree house (now gone), added storage buildings, milking area in the barn, and a resource building and office for our ministry and school (One Faith Academy/VAST Network). We are currently building on a summer kitchen in the back, replacing our electric stove with wood burning and propane ones and are working on moving to self-suffeciency as much as possible.

Let me introduce the family to you. My husband Richard "Satch" and I, Christie, are the owners of Shekinah Farm. We are Dad and Mom in most of the stories in this site. We have 1 child now living here, Shelly age 18. Ricky, April, and Tasha are in some of our stories and journals, Ricky is our Son (22), Tasha is our adopted Daughter and is 21 yo. She lived with us for 3 years. April (20) is our G-d Daughter and lived with us off and on most of her life. We are caregivers for 'Grandpa Buster' (Richard's Dad), and home to 'Grandma', 'Grandpa Norm' (Christie's Parents) and 'Kev' (Christie's brother.) We have 2 dogs, Maya (Australian Shepherd mix) and Zivah (Bull Mastif mix). We have several cats, 2 that live inside, Smudge and Mica'el, and a bunch that live outside and keep the mice and rats away, well sort of. We have 1 horse, 2 cows, 2 heifers, and 1 bull. We have 6 sheep and an Angora goat. We keep anywhere from 12-20 chickens, and bee hives. We have added 10 blueberry plants, 4 apple trees and 2 cherry trees this past year. Our plans for the future include adding more fruit trees. We no longer have La Mancha milk goats and we are now milking our cows. We do have plans on adding a couple milk goats again. We have a photo gallery that is always under construction so please take a look!

Dad works on our farm and for our school part time and works full time on the military post in Huntsville, AL. Mom runs the home, farm, and a home school organization for special needs children. She has home schooled her children since 1990. We all share in the farm chores and try to include everyone staying with us as much as possible in our daily routine of farming, learning, and enjoying Adonai's provision and family life. We currently home church and have fellowship daily with those Yahweh sends our direction. We meet on Friday evenings and Saturday for Shabbat. Sometimes we visit other home groups on Saturdays. If you would like to know more about our beliefs please check out our 'What we Believe' page. If you would like to visit, please email me.

The farm blog is updated as Mom has time (which is not often), but the stories are wonderful places to start your visit. We invite you to laugh and cry with us, live and love with us! Yahweh has blessed us greatly and we thank Him!

Vision, Core Values and Mission Statement (as they have been revealed thus far)