Sep 17, 2020 | Valley Voices Blog
This year, for the first time since 1974, Hawthorne Valley did not hold its summer camps. Our campus was unusually quiet. The paths forged by campers for the last 46 years were overgrown with grasses, bushes, and weeds. Summer 2020 is not one we will soon forget or...
May 27, 2020 | Valley Voices Blog
This essay first appeared in Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School’s weekly newsletter. We found the insights Dr. Simon Frishkoff, HVS High School teacher, put forth so thought-provoking that we wanted to share them with our broader community. Wishing you all peace...
Apr 23, 2020 | Valley Voices Blog
Spring is perhaps the most anticipated season in the Northeast. As winter drags on, we yearn for longer, warmer days of summer when we can go outside in t-shirts, work in our gardens, and enjoy being outside without thinking about bundling up in all our wintertime...
Mar 30, 2020 | Valley Voices Blog
written by Rachel Schneider, Co-Director, The Institute for Mindful Agriculture at Hawthorne Valley I took a walk the other day. I saw a branch with new buds against a clear blue sky. A little further on, over the bridge and the clear flowing brook with a...
Feb 11, 2020 | Valley Voices Blog
This month marks the 49th anniversary of the incorporation of Hawthorne Valley. Originally known as the Rudolf Steiner Education and Farming Association, Hawthorne Valley was founded on February 11, 1971, with the goal of having a working farm that school-aged...
Oct 28, 2019 | Valley Voices Blog
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:...
