by Sushannah Laurange | Feb 6, 2019 | Alkion, Center for Social Research, Farm, News, Store
Dana Wagner grew up as a Midwest farmer’s daughter. Her father served as a professor of agriculture and ran a 45 acre cattle farm in Missouri, so farming and food played a big role in her life. For college, she chose to study retail marketing at Central Missouri State...
by Sushannah Laurange | Jan 23, 2019 | Farm, News, Store
For the month of February, the Handwritten Love Letter Project will be on display in Hawthorne Valley Farm Store’s café exhibit space. The show is a collection of letters sent in by the community and found online. The inspiration for this project came from a...
by Heather Gibbons | Jan 7, 2019 | Alkion, Center for Social Research, Farm, News, Store
Gratitude Thomas James, Ph.D., has been elected president of the Hawthorne Valley Association Board of Trustees. Dr. James will replace outgoing president Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Ph.D., who has completed her second three-year term on the Board. Tom has been serving...
by Heather Gibbons | 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...
by Heather Gibbons | Dec 11, 2018 | Farm, News
The medical journal The Lancet published a study in September 2018 that showed, “Dairy consumption of around three servings per day is associated with lower rates of cardiovascular disease and mortality, compared to lower levels of consumption, according to a...
by Heather Gibbons | 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...
by Sushannah Laurange | Oct 1, 2018 | Alkion, Center for Social Research, Farm, News, Store
What lives in our backyards and the woods that blanket Columbia County? If we plant native species in the hedgerows that separate farm fields, will that attract insects and other animals that benefit vegetable production? How do human activities affect the creatures...
by Heather Gibbons | Sep 19, 2018 | Uncategorized
The annual Fall Festival is made possible through the efforts of countless volunteers. Volunteering at the festival is fun and rewarding, so if you would like to help please click the link and sign up! No experience is necessary, and you can rest assured you’ll be...
by Sushannah Laurange | Sep 4, 2018 | Alkion, Center for Social Research, Farm, News, School, Store
The Hudson School in Hoboken, New Jersey, has sent classes to Hawthorne Valley Farm for week-long stays through the Visiting Students Program since the 1980s. Through this relationship, Betsy Brennan first experienced the beauty of the valley as a child. She has...
by Heather Gibbons | Aug 21, 2018 | Farm, News, Store, Uncategorized
Hawthorne Valley Farm continues to rank in the top 10 organic dairies in the US (ranked 6th), receiving a 5-cow rating by The Cornucopia Institute, a prominent nonprofit organic industry watchdog. The Institute once again awarded Hawthorne Valley Farm the coveted 5...
