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We have an amazing opportunity to expand our impact! We are partnering with Sherman Valley Farm to save, expand and Multiplly the John Blalock Memorial Orchard...
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🌳 Save the Orchard, Expand and Multiply
Sherman Valley Farm | John Blalock Memorial Orchard
8306 S Sherman Rd 99224
A Place of Peace, Healing, and Connection
Sherman Valley Farm was born from John Blalock’s deep love for the land and his dream of creating something lasting and life-giving. In the early 1990s, he purchased 10 acres of raw land outside Spokane and began planting apple trees. With patience and care, he grew it into a thriving orchard with over 500 trees.
For John, it was never just about apples. It was about creating a place where people could slow down, connect with nature, and experience the simple joy of picking fruit straight from the tree. Over the years, Sherman Valley Farm became a community treasure—a gathering place for U-pick apples, fresh cider, and peaceful moments among the trees.
His son, Adam, shared in building the orchard and desires to continue his father’s legacy. But the question remains: how can John’s vision grow beyond what he started?
This is where Legacy Builders Ministries steps in. Located just down the road, we share John’s heart—we’ve launched a U-pick, community-centered farm with the same vision of peace, healing, and connection. We had been eager for John’s wisdom and partnership when, tragically, he was killed in a motorcycle accident in May 2025. Though grieved by this loss, we are honored to join Adam in carrying John’s dream forward.
Together, we can not only save this orchard—we can expand it into something even greater and multiply its impact across the region.
Phase One: Save the Orchard — $250,000
Phase One: Save the Orchard — $250,000
Our immediate goal is to secure and stabilize the orchard, ensuring it remains a place of peace, healing, and connection for generations. This phase provides for land preservation, care of the trees, and the foundation for a self-sustaining orchard.
This is urgent yet hopeful: safeguarding what John started while launching a vision that will multiply far beyond one farm. Adam Blalock will continue leading the cultivation of the orchard, while Legacy Builders provides management and long-term stability.
Phase Two: Expand & Multiply — $1,000,000
Phase Two: Expand & Multiply — $1,000,000
Once secured, we will expand the orchard into a holistic agricultural destination—where families, students, and neighbors gather to learn, heal, and reconnect. Workshops, farm-to-table events, and hands-on learning will create new pathways for people to move out of isolation and back into authentic community.
This phase also includes expanding farm operations at The Flying Farmstead.
Phase Three: No Limits — Open Goal
Phase Three: No Limits — Open Goal
There is no cap on the work of peace, healing, and connection. Beyond Sherman Valley Farm and The Flying Farmstead, we are building a network of small farms—training people through hands-on experience, mentoring entrepreneurs, and empowering farmers to address the urgent needs in our food system and communities.
Why This Matters
Why This Matters
Most of our food comes from a global industrial system—distant, impersonal, and unhealthy. It does not care about our health, our faith, or our relationships. Our soil, water, and air are filled with chemicals that damage our bodies and desecrate God’s creation.
People feel trapped—forced to participate in an industrial system while bowing at the idol of convenience, even as they long for a better way.
We are starving—not only for real food, but for genuine human connection and true spiritual life.
Where the Money Goes
Where the Money Goes
Donations to this fund are designated to saving, establishing, and expanding small farms. They do not cover ongoing operational costs; instead, we are building self-sustaining models that can endure long after donations.
Because Legacy Builders is a community-focused 501(c)(3), your donations are fully tax-deductible. Our mission is to create pathways into urban gardening, homesteading, and small-scale farm production—breaking dependence on the industrial food system and restoring health, community, and faith.
How to Connect
How to Connect
🌐 Legacy Builders: www.legacybuild.org
🌐 Sherman Valley Farm: shermanvalleyfarm.com
🌱 Give Today. Save the Orchard. Expand and Multiply.
YOU HAVE THE KEYS!
Poverty is the condition of brokenness in our relationship with God, ourselves, others, and creation. This results in material, emotional, and spiritual lack. Poverty goes beyond the lack of money & resources, it’s a state where people experience a shortage of dignity, community, justice and spiritual well-being. It reflects the brokenness of a sin tainted world marked by injustice and neglect.
The solution to poverty isn't charity, it’s restoration. The great mission of the Church is to extend God's restorative love to an impoverished world, helping people find their way back to God. This is the kingdom of God.
The solution to poverty isn't charity, it’s restoration. The great mission of the Church is to extend God's restorative love to an impoverished world, helping people find their way back to God. This is the kingdom of God.
Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.
1 Peter 4:10
Take charge of your life!
Stewardship: The careful and responsible management of our time, talents, and treasures — for His glory and the good of others. God gives each of us a four legged seat of authority that we are to manage.
To be able to sit in this authority we must steward the 4 foundational legs of the chair.
The 4F's Food/Fitness – Finance – Family – Faith
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1. Food & Fitness: Stewarding Creation for Health & Security
We teach sustainable farming, homesteading, and gardening to equip communities with tools for food security, health, and community development.
1. Food & Fitness: Stewarding Creation for Health & Security
We teach sustainable farming, homesteading, and gardening to equip communities with tools for food security, health, and community development.
2. Finance: Financial Stewardship with Purpose
Through biblically-based financial training, we help people manage money wisely, break cycles of poverty, and build lasting, generational impact. This leads to a life of generousity.
2. Finance: Financial Stewardship with Purpose
Through biblically-based financial training, we help people manage money wisely, break cycles of poverty, and build lasting, generational impact. This leads to a life of generousity.
3. Family: Restoring Relationships, Building Strong Homes
We support healthy family dynamics, marriage enrichment, and parenting—strengthening the foundation of God’s design for kingdom legacy.
3. Family: Restoring Relationships, Building Strong Homes
We support healthy family dynamics, marriage enrichment, and parenting—strengthening the foundation of God’s design for kingdom legacy.
4. Faith: Rooted in Christ, Living the Great Commission
Inspired by Matthew 28:19-20, we guide people toward mature discipleship, living out Jesus’ teachings through everyday life and how to use the "keys to the kingdom". We train that your Christian beliefs should be evidenced by your works, "that all must repent of their sins and turn to God—and prove they have changed by the good things they do." Acts 26:20
4. Faith: Rooted in Christ, Living the Great Commission
Inspired by Matthew 28:19-20, we guide people toward mature discipleship, living out Jesus’ teachings through everyday life and how to use the "keys to the kingdom". We train that your Christian beliefs should be evidenced by your works, "that all must repent of their sins and turn to God—and prove they have changed by the good things they do." Acts 26:20
The Importance of Stewardship.
God Owns Everything “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it…” – Psalm 24:1
We are not owners—we are managers of God’s resources. Our lives, families, finances, and even our calling belong to Him.
We Are Called to Steward Well “Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.” – 1 Corinthians 4:2
Stewardship is not just financial. It’s how we use our time, talents, relationships, influence, and opportunities.
Stewardship Builds Legacy When we manage God’s resources with wisdom and faith, we leave behind a legacy of discipleship, service, and generational blessing.
Stewardship Is Worship “Whatever you do… do it all for the glory of God.” – 1 Corinthians 10:31 True stewardship is an act of worship, reflecting our love, trust, and obedience to the Lord.
How We Live Out Stewardship at Legacy Builders
How We Live Out Stewardship at Legacy Builders
Time – We invest in people, prayer, and purposeful action.
Talents – We discover and develop God-given gifts.
Treasure – We obey in tithing and give generously, knowing God is our provider.
Truth – We faithfully teach, disciple, and lead with the truth from the Scriptures.
Legacy Starts With Stewardship
Legacy Starts With Stewardship
Your life is a seed. Steward it well, and God will multiply it for generations.
Return to the Land
At Legacy Builders Farm, we champion small-scale regenerative farming to grow nutrient-dense food—free from chemicals and rooted in sustainable practices. Operating on 8.8 acres in Spokane, WA, our farm equips our community with skills to thrive. We stand against the industrial food system, which is designed for corporate profit over nutrition. Join us to learn, grow, and access wholesome food, fostering a healthier, more sustainable future.
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Love Your Neighbor ministry.
Today, over 122 million people worldwide have been forced to flee their homes due to war, violence or persecution. We work with refugees and the local community in Spokane with hands-on farm and garden training, cultural adaptation and job training. Inspired by Christian Love we want to welcome our new neighbors and help them integrate to life in Spokane.
Volunteers and Interns
Join our thriving community in Spokane! We're excited to welcome passionate volunteers and interns ready to dive into hands-on farming, biblical community and loving our neighbors. Experience personalized mentorship as you actively contribute to the farm, help immigrants and experience biblical community and stewardship. Interested? Reach out today for more details.
We all know the saying, "Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." Yet, this familiar adage overlooks a key truth: teaching someone to fish only works when the fish are there to be caught. We believe there’s a better way.
Our perspective is this: "Give a man some food and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to steward his life Biblically, and you nourish him and his family for generations." This is the heartbeat of our ministry—a commitment to providing sustainable solutions that break the cycle of poverty and empower communities to thrive. We Build Kingdom Builders.
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