Customers asked, and we listened! Hawthorne Valley Farm’s on-site Creamery will soon offer organic, pasteurized milk at our NYC Greenmarket stands and in the Farm Store! While we remain committed to selling organic raw milk in our on-site Farm Store, the demand for quality, local, organic milk in NYC has been growing over the years.
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Harvest Festival 2024
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
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
Alkion Press New Children’s Book Release
Waiting for something you’re excited about can be hard, but staying busy can help the time pass more quickly. And sometimes things can go wrong and plans have to change. Follow along as one boy fills his days and counts down the sleeps till DumpTruck Land! Will he get to go? Alkion Press has published
Local Artist & Place Corps Cofounder Dawn Breeze featured on Roots to Renewal
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
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
Earth Day Tree Planting
On Earth Day, as part of broader spring tree and shrub plantings across the farm, the Farm team added over thirty trees to the cow lane. The farmers planted a mixture of Red Oak, Pin Oak, and Black Locust bare root saplings. While it will take about five to ten years for the trees to establish themselves
Farmscape Ecology Program celebrates publication of Field Guide to Columbia County
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
Earth Day & Zero Waste at the Farm Store
Hawthorne Valley is pleased to mark the 54th Earth Day with the launch of the Zero Waste Initiative at the Farm Store. In line with Earth Day 2024’s theme of reducing plastics in the environment, the Farm Store has developed the Zero Waste Initiative to address the use of single-use plastics and food waste. The
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