Dec 29, 2020 | News, Uncategorized
Cows grazing in the pasture at Hawthorne Valley Farm in Ghent, N.Y. Credit…Lauren Lancaster for The New York Times Hawthorne Valley Farm’s Manager, Spencer Fenniman, spoke with New York Times reporter Andrew Jacobs this past fall about the ethics of...
Sep 2, 2020 | News, Uncategorized
This summer, Hawthorne Valley was pleased to serve as a worksite for the Columbia-Greene Workforce Development’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP), offering two placements to county youth. As part of the placement, the youth gained 6 weeks of experience working...
Apr 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dear Friends and Neighbors, I sincerely hope this letter finds you and your loved ones safe and healthy as we collectively navigate the disruption, anxiety, and fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. It is glaringly apparent that this crisis is affecting everyone, and...
Mar 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I...
Dec 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Hawthorne Valley’s Institute for Mindful Agriculture (IMA) is hosting a workshop, “Agriculture as the Heart of Environmentalism: Belonging to the Earth, the Soil, Each Other,” from Thursday evening, February 21st through noon on Saturday, February...
Oct 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
This past summer, our friends from The Capital Institute ( a non-partisan think tank exploring the economic transition to a more just, regenerative, and thus sustainable way of living on this earth through the transformation of finance) spent the day with Executive...
