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🍁 Oct 24 Harvest & Horsepower https://www.harvestandhorsepower.com

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🍎 How to Begin a One-Room Schoolhouse
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10/11/2026

I resigned from public education. Then I quit following their blueprint for education—and opened a one-room schoolhouse on my farm.

If you’ve ever thought, “There has to be a better way,” you don’t have to wait for someone else to build it. You’re stronger than you realize and braver than you think. You can open a school in your community—and you don’t have to figure it out alone.

Comment SCHOOL, and I’ll help you get started.

Hi, if we haven’t met, I’m Dennita, owner of The Little Red Schoolhouse: Virginia’s farm school®.We’re in our fifth year...
10/10/2026

Hi, if we haven’t met, I’m Dennita, owner of The Little Red Schoolhouse: Virginia’s farm school®.

We’re in our fifth year, with a waitlist—families looking for a better school for their children.

And it makes sense.

Have you ever stopped to question the message handed down through generations? That sending our children to school means we can automatically trust the people responsible for them?

A title doesn’t earn trust. Accountability and transparency do.

I envision a nation where parents have real education choices—where their education tax dollars can follow their children to the school that fits them best. A school where families are heard, trust is earned, and childhood is protected.

Micro schools can be part of that better way.

If you’re overwhelmed by what you’re seeing in public schools, and God has laid it on your heart to open a school in your community, take that calling seriously.

I want to teach you how to open a micro school in your community.

Comment SCHOOL for more information.

Due to the impending weather, Harvest & Horsepower has been rescheduled to October 17 from 10:00 AM–4:00 PM.We can’t wai...
10/03/2026

Due to the impending weather, Harvest & Horsepower has been rescheduled to October 17 from 10:00 AM–4:00 PM.

We can’t wait to see everyone on October 17 for a beautiful fall day at The Red Barn Farm! 🍂🎃🐴

10/02/2026

🌧️ HARVEST & HORSEPOWER — RESCHEDULED 🌧️

Due to the impending weather, Harvest & Horsepower has been rescheduled.

📅 NEW DATE: Saturday, October 17
⏰ 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Same fall fun. Same farm. Just a new date! 🍂🐴🚜

Please help us spread the word by SHARING this post. We can’t wait to see everyone on October 17!

09/20/2026

Seven million American children ages 3–17 currently have an ADHD diagnosis.

That’s 11.7% of American children.

ADHD is real. Some children absolutely need evaluation, treatment, accommodations, or special education services.

But we need to be brave enough to ask another question:

What if some children don’t need to be fixed? What if they need a different educational environment?

Give me a school full of those kids.

Give me the child who asks a hundred questions.

Give me the one who can’t stop moving.

Give me the one who takes something apart just to figure out how it works.

Give me the independent thinker.

Give me the kid who questions why something has always been done that way.

I want those kids.

Because the very characteristics that can make a child difficult to fit into a traditional classroom can become powerful strengths in the right environment.

Teach them to build.

Teach them to create.

Teach them to solve problems.

Teach them to lead.

Teach them how to take an idea and turn it into something of value.

And absolutely expose them to entrepreneurship.

An entrepreneur doesn’t have to wait for someone else to decide what they’re worth.

There isn’t a predetermined salary attached to their potential.

There isn’t a corporate ladder they have to wait their turn to climb.

Their income isn’t automatically capped by a salary schedule. Their opportunity can grow with what they build.

Johnny didn’t need us to lower the bar.

He needed an environment where he could show us how high he could climb.

Not because Johnny changed.

Because his educational placement did.

The child wasn’t failing the classroom.
The classroom was failing the child.

And there are Johnnys sitting in classrooms all across this country right now.

Maybe it’s time we build something different for them.

If you’ve ever thought about opening a where children like Johnny can learn differently, move more, work with their hands, and discover what they’re capable of—

this is your sign.

Our final school-founder seminar of the year is October 10, live on Zoom.

Comment SCHOOL for more info.

09/18/2026

69%.

That’s how many American fourth graders scored BELOW NAEP Proficient in reading in 2024.

Nearly 7 out of 10.

We can do better for our children.

And at The Little Red Schoolhouse, we’re proving what’s possible with intentional, consistent reading instruction.

Homeschool moms, I wanna talk to you.

I know teaching a child to read can feel overwhelming, especially if you’ve never been trained.

But you don’t need to be a reading specialist. You need the right tools. A phonics-based curriculum that teaches the rules, not just the words, and a teacher’s manual that shows you step by step what to do.

You can teach your child to read. You just need a roadmap.

Comment “READING” and I’ll send you the link to the curriculum.

09/16/2026

History should be taught from evidence—not through the ideology of the person standing at the front of the classroom.

That is why history at The Little Red Schoolhouse doesn’t begin and end with a standard on a piece of paper.

This year, our students will take 10 off-campus field trips and experience six more right here on our campus.

We take them to the places where history happened.

We put primary sources in their hands.

We let them walk the ground, hear the stories, examine the evidence, and ask the hard questions.

We want them to understand the people who came before them—not as perfect people, but as real people who endured unimaginable hardship, made consequential decisions, sacrificed, persevered, and helped shape a nation.

Because American history should never be reduced to one person’s interpretation of it.

Our children deserve the whole story.

The triumphs and the failures.

The courage and the mistakes.

The principles upon which America was founded—and the moments we failed to live up to them.

They need to understand what freedom cost.

What it took to preserve it.

And the responsibility that comes with inheriting it.

We aren’t teaching history so children can memorize what happened.

We’re teaching it so they understand why it matters.

Because one day, this country will be theirs to carry forward.

And before we place America in their hands—

we better make certain they understand what they’re holding.

09/13/2026

Five years ago, the Lord called me to begin a school on a 25-acre farm.

Today, that farm has grown to nearly 60 acres, and we’re completing our second school building. But the most beautiful thing we’ve built cannot be measured in acres or buildings.

It’s this community of families.

Grandparents’ Day is one of our favorite traditions at The Little Red Schoolhouse. Grandparents carry wisdom, faith, stories, and traditions that no textbook can replace.

This year, our pond was nearly four and a half feet low because of the drought, and we weren’t sure fishing would be possible.

But the Lord had another idea.

Just before we started the event, two little boys didn’t have grandparents with them. One boy’s grandparents live on another continent, and the other had no grandparents nearby in Virginia.

So I asked, “Will two grandfathers stand up and fill the gap?”

I asked for two.

Three grandfathers stood.

Without hesitation, they stepped forward to make sure no child felt alone.

It moved me to tears.

Years from now, I may not remember how many fish were caught, but I will remember three men standing up for two little boys who needed them.

That is the beauty of our community.

It’s more than a school. It’s a place where families become family—where people see a need and step forward to meet it.

One Grandparents’ Day each year simply isn’t enough. We’ll welcome them back again in the spring.

09/09/2026

When did hard work become the enemy of childhood?

The truth is, it’s easier to do the job ourselves than it is to teach a child how to do it.

It’s easier to feed the animals ourselves than to stand beside a child while they learn.

It’s easier to clean up the mess than to teach them to clean it up.

It’s easier to keep children inside a brick-and-mortar building than to take them outside and teach them responsibility for something beyond themselves.

It’s easier to hand them a screen than to hand them a problem and expect them to figure it out.

But we are not here for the easy road.

Because easy doesn’t build grit.

Easy doesn’t teach perseverance.

Easy doesn’t develop discipline, determination, responsibility, or work ethic.

And easy rarely produces the kind of men and women capable of leading when life gets hard.

At The Little Red Schoolhouse, we are raising critical thinkers. Problem solvers. Entrepreneurs. Leaders. Builders. Children who know how to work with their hands, think for themselves, work alongside others, and take responsibility for something bigger than themselves.

They will get dirty.

They will get hot.

They will get cold.

They will struggle with things before they master them.

They will make mistakes.

And sometimes it will take us three times longer to teach them to do something than it would have taken us to simply do it ourselves.

We do it anyway.

Because childhood was never supposed to be preparation for a life of comfort.

It is preparation for a life of capability.

We aren’t raising children who need the world to become easier.

We’re raising children who will be strong enough to face the world when it isn’t.

That is the work.

And that is worth doing.

Take a good look at this picture.What do you see?The rain.The rainbow.The light breaking through.Beautiful.But then I sa...
09/08/2026

Take a good look at this picture.

What do you see?

The rain.
The rainbow.
The light breaking through.

Beautiful.

But then I saw the cloud—a dove descending—and thought, “Well, Lord. That’s not exactly subtle.”

People ask, “How do you know you’re following what the Lord has called you to do?”

Because when I walk in step with Him, the Holy Spirit leads, corrects, and confirms me. I don’t need a committee, a permission slip, or the public school system to tell me what children need.

What began with one step of faith is still growing—and I know exactly whose work it is.

This is your sign. It’s time for parents to lead.

For generations, the public school system has shaped our children’s education and, increasingly, their formation. But parents are responsible for their children’s education, character, and spiritual foundation. That responsibility cannot be outsourced and reclaimed only after the damage is done.

We must examine what our children are being taught and whether it aligns with the values we’re instilling at home.

Our children need truth, wisdom, character, and an education that points them to the Lord—not away from Him.

The time for complaining is over. The time for families to build something better is here.

Let’s plant a school in your community.

My final seminar of the year is October 10.

Comment SCHOOL, and I’ll send you the link.

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25115 Smith Grove Road
Dinwiddie, VA
23803

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