Build a LIFE: Life Integrating Farm Education
Build A LIFE: Life Integrating Farm Education
Build A LIFE: Life Integrating Farm Education
Previous slide
Next slide

Build A LIFE Workshop is a subsidiary of Project MOTHER, Inc. LIFE is an acronym for Life Integrating Farm Education. Both constituents are educational and hands-on enterprise projects. Build a LIFE is a NEW educational and hands-on enterprise project (less than two years) being established on a gardening and developing livestock farm in Chase City, Virginia. She is owned and operated by Professor Gloria Barksdale, an African-American woman, middle & high-school educator, author, project manager, and college professor with over 40 years of non-consecutive successful farming and teaching experience. To date, she single-handedly has materially and substantially participated in the full operation of the farm. Officially identified as Farm 8067, Tract 17383, Legacy Acres has her Wetland Determination Certification and is part of the District Lake Country SWCD recognized by the Boydton USDA Service Center.

Goals & Dreams

We Are the Best Organic Farming

By using our greenhouse to seed, fertilize, and produce starter plants beginning every spring, we are ensuring that we producing healthy, organic foods free from chemicals and over-processing. We use the best organic soils, raised beds, chemical free potting, and strategically organize garden space throughout the property to give our plants a healthy start and longevity throughout the seasons of the year.

100% Organic

Recycling

Our Services

What We Do

Poultry Products

Our poultry products include brown chicken eggs, duck eggs and turkey eggs with much more on the horizon by 2025.

Organic Products

We can certify that the food was grown, harvested, stored and transported without the use of synthetic chemicals, irradiation or fumigants.

Fresh Vegetables

This year our recently planted and thriving fresh vegetables include: corn, cabbage, carrots, green peppers, sweet peppers, cantaloupes, watermelons, onions, potatoes, collard greens, green beans, hybrid big-boy tomatoes, cherry tomatoes and much, much more!

Our Gallery

With Care and Love Everything Grows

Achievements

Experience + Collaborations = Success

New! Special Farm Therapy Activity & Programs for Veterans, Seniors, and Juveniles

Over 40 years’ farming experience in Lunenburg County, VA

Two years ownership and farming at Legacy Acres I in Mecklenburg County, VA

Volunteer with Central Virginia Food Bank | Holy Name of Jesus Church, Chase City, VA

Community Garden Collaboration with Virginia State University Agriculturalist, Wanda Johnson, Chase City, VA

Produce Selling Relationship with Sandy Fork Farm Supply, Buffalo Junction, VA

NEW: Contributing Food Bank Resources for True Worship Deliverance Center, Boydton, VA

Scroll to Top