Unconventional by Nature
Number of apprentices that have trained as farmers at HVA, nearly all remain in farming and food-related work
Number of businesses within 120 miles that Hawthorne Valley supported in 2015
Number of children Hawthorne Valley welcomes to its farm-based education programs each year
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Dairy Farming’s Lifeline: Community
by Sushannah Laurange “We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community…Our ambition must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.” ~ Cesar Chavez Dairy farming:...
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Meet Our Faculty – Rachel Loshak
1st Grade Class Teacher Rachel Loshak grew up on an apple farm in Suffolk, England. She comes from a family of hard-working fruit farmers, entrepreneurs, and musicians, and has had a successful career as a singer, songwriter and bassist, touring internationally...
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January 25, 2020
Winter Botany Workshop - Session 2
This is the second of three sessions in the popular winter botany workshop, led by the Farmscape Ecology…
January 26, 2020
Double Book Launch
Please join Hawthorne Valley, Alkion Press, and Waldorf Publications for a double book launch as we celebrate the…
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