Unconventional by Nature

Hawthorne Valley Association

Harvest Festival 2024

Hay wagon with people on board parked in front of main barn at Harvest Festival

We look forward to this year’s Harvest Festival on Sunday, October 13 from 11am-3pm as we also celebrate 100 years of Biodynamic Agriculture! We’ll have phenomenal food, live music, a school open house, puppet shows, Birds of Prey demonstrations, artisan crafts, hay rides, children’s activities, and so much more! Keep an eye out for social

Calico Wallpaper launches new collections in support of HVS

Enchantment by Calico Wallpaper

We are thrilled to announce the launch of two new wallpaper collections from Calico Wallpaper, created in collaboration with Early Childhood Educator Janene Ping! These collections, Alchemy and Enchantment, were inspired by the raw, unfiltered beauty of nature’s most vivid hues, using natural dyes to create distinct designs. Our deepest gratitude to Rachel and Nick

Local Artist & Place Corps Cofounder Dawn Breeze featured on Roots to Renewal

dawn breeze

Hawthorne Valley is thrilled to announce that Episode 9 of Season 2 of our Roots to Renewal podcast is now live! Join Hawthorne Valley’s Executive Director, Martin Ping, as he sits down with artist and Place Corps co-founder, Dawn Breeze. They dive into the origins and goals of Place Corps, a gap year fellowship program

Field Guide Library Book Tour Kicks Off

Co-Authors Claudia Knab-Vispo and Conrad Vispo holding a copy of the newly-released Field Guide to Columbia County, NY

Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program will kick off a library book tour celebrating the publication of From the Hudson to the Taconics: An Ecological and Cultural Field Guide to the Habitats of Columbia County, NY with a book talk at the Kinderhook Memorial Library (18 Hudson Ave, Kinderhook) on Wednesday, May 15, at 6:30pm and

Farmscape Ecology Program celebrates publication of Field Guide to Columbia County

Authors of the Field Guide - Conrad Vispo, Claudia Knab-Vispo, Anna Duhon, and Gretchen Stevens.

Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program is pleased to announce the publication of From the Hudson to the Taconics: An Ecological and Cultural Field Guide to the Habitats of Columbia County, NY, written in collaboration with Hudsonia Ltd, designed by Ron Toelke Associates, and published by Black Dome Press. A Book Launch Celebration will be held

Center for Social Research New Book

On Tuesday, February 13 Gary Lamb, Director of Center for Social Research, is releasing his anticipated book On the Wings of Words: Conversations and Human Relations: Inner Aspects of the Fundamental Social Law and The Threefold Social Organism. In this volume, Lamb researched and collected various perspectives that Rudolf Steiner has spoken or written about