Welcome to Homegrown Marketplace at Per Mariam Farm! We are the Robeson’s: Ryan, Mary-Christine, Lucia, Arianna, Daniel and Dominic! Here’s a little bit of our story.
Since we got married in 2017, our lives have been pretty hectic! 3 babies, 5 moves, multiple career changes, starting a business right before Covid, unemployment, self-employment and everything in between! By the grace of God, we finally feel like we have made it to our resting place where we can raise our family with hard work, faith, and a duty to labor on God’s land. We started our farm/homestead (Per Mariam Farm (Instagram)) in 2022 and we have fallen in love with this lifestyle. All our animals have the lives they deserve, where they get to do their animal things and we hope that the result is an even greater, healthier product!
Our primary focus, beyond our faith, is our family. We believe the family should be a collective unit, working and laboring towards a common goal. Our kids have responsibilities in the house and on the farm, fostering an environment where they know their self-worth as an essential and irreplaceable component in our family and society. We believe strongly that their witnessing us struggle, work, and sometimes disagree about the best way to go about things, all in the effort for achieving the common good of our family, will provide them a realistic example of marriage and family life.
Our work is centered around laboring to care and foster the little bit of God’s creation that He has entrusted us with, working with the land and caring for our furry companions. We are constantly learning about and implementing the best farming practices for us, our animals, and our land. We believe in Management Intensive Rotationally Grazing all of our animals. Keeping our ruminant animals on grass-fed diets and feeding all of our poultry fermented soy-free Non-GMO feed. We never use any chemicals in on our land or in our garden.
We are extremely passionate about the food that we eat and our metabolic health. In a world where we are surrounded by food dyes, chemicals, and high fructose corn syrup in almost every product out there – from food to skin care – we believe that the only way to truly eat healthy is to raise and grow the food yourself free from all the nasty. Mary-Christine has nearly perfected the art of cooking from scratch. Our kitchen is always filled with new projects – from kombucha, yogurt, cheese, and soap to mead, candles, sourdough and pasta sauce.
Each day is filled with labor, prayer, and occasionally a bit of recreation too! We are working first and foremost to break out of the consumer mindset and become producers instead. We currently have 2 Jersey Dairy Cows, 8 Nubian Dairy Goats, 3 Katahdin Sheep, Turkeys, Ducks, Chickens, and Rabbits! And to protect them all, we have the best Livestock Guarding Dogs, Georgia and Tina. Beyond that, what food we cannot do ourselves, we try to get from other local, small, family owned farms.
Our business is constantly evolving as we discern in what direction God will take it. Thanks for coming along for the ride and supporting our mission!
Our Logos
Our Logos are important to us because they are a representation of not only our business, but also our family. It is simple, organic and, at it’s center, is our faith. The way that the wheat intersects with the sword creates the Chi Rho, a catholic symbol representing the first two letters of Jesus’ name in Greek. Our faith is the most important thing to us and in our decision making for our family and business. We hope to continually put our beliefs into serving our customers and our community.