Rory Groves's Blog
April 15, 2024
Newsletter — Spring 2024
The Spring newsletter is mailing and should start arriving in mailboxes this week. If you’re not already on our print newsletter mailing list, you can sign up for free here. “God…
March 21, 2024
Power Down: Quiet Focus on Your Real Life
Join us this year April 21-27 and Power Down with your family! Two years ago we ran our first “power down” experiment at the Grovestead. After years of pursuing a…
Reflections from Our First Power Down
Join us April 21-27 for a Power Down week this year! Read more about it here. Reprinted from The Grovestead Newsletter, Summer 2022 Becca: To understand it, you need to…
March 8, 2024
Now Printing! The Family Economy
We are very happy to announce that Rory’s newest book is printing and will be available very soon! The Family Economy: Discovering the Family as It Was Designed to Work…
January 13, 2023
How Much to Grow?
We’ve come a long ways in 10 years. The majority of days now we are eating full meals right out of our farm: lamb steaks with asparagus, fried eggs and…
October 28, 2022
Newsletter — Fall 2022
“There’s Just So Much to Learn…” Becca aptly puts it in her article Patience over Panic. This is what we are reflecting on ten years into this homesteading adventure, but…
October 14, 2022
Upcoming Events: Fall Family Retreat
One of the goals of Gather & Grow is that after each gathering we leave families dreaming bigger dreams, seeking God for the vision He has for their family. In…
September 10, 2022
Blest Be the Tie That Binds
With great joy in our hearts, we just wrapped up our second Gather & Grow get-together. Last year was our first big gathering, and it was after that event that…
July 26, 2022
Gathering Again
Our second annual gathering of newsletter readers and kindred friends is scheduled for Labor Day weekend in September! The event will be on our farm again in Northfield, Minnesota. Come…
July 25, 2022
Newsletter – Summer 2022
Much to say about family and fathers in this issue of The Grovestead Newsletter. Featuring an article by Jared Dodd who joined us for the Father-Son retreat in June. If you’re not already on our mailing list, you can request a copy here.
