by Heather Gibbons | Apr 22, 2019 | Valley Voices Blog
On this day 49 years ago, Gaylord Nelson, a then US Senator from Wisconsin, spearheaded the first Earth Day as a national day to “raise public awareness and concern for living organisms.” Although now honored internationally, and recognized as the birth of the modern...
by Sushannah Laurange | Apr 10, 2019 | Farm, News
This week, Hawthorne Valley Farm participated in the Riverdale Neighborhood House’s Meet Our Farmers and Celebrate Local Farming event to raise awareness and support for local and organic foods. Riverdale has been a CSA pick up site for Hawthorne Valley Farm for...
by Sushannah Laurange | Apr 8, 2019 | News
Janene Ping, Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School Kindergarten teacher and Magical Puppet Tree founder and artistic director, will travel to the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, this month to attend the Waldorf 100 World Early Childhood Conference. Conference leaders...
by Sushannah Laurange | Apr 1, 2019 | Alkion, Center for Social Research, Farm, News, Store
Hawthorne Valley’s Farmscape Ecology Program (FEP) team will present some of their research in two sessions at the Northeast Natural History Conference in Springfield, MA on April 12-14. The Northeast Natural History Conference is in its 19th year and serves as...
by Sushannah Laurange | Mar 28, 2019 | Alkion, Center for Social Research, Farm, News, Store
Creamery Operations Manager Farming has struggled for many years to attract a younger generation of workers. Small farm dairy operations, in particular, are faced with a shrinking field of people interested in such labor-intensive, rhythmic work. But for millennial...
by Sushannah Laurange | Mar 18, 2019 | Farm, News
Hawthorne Valley Farm’s Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) site in Riverdale, NYC was recently featured in an article about New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s initiative to map Farm-to-City food locations. According to the article in The...
by Sushannah Laurange | Feb 25, 2019 | Alkion, Center for Social Research, Farm, News, School, Store
Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School Music Director Bill Pernice brings a lifetime of experience in music and education to his work as Lead Music Teacher and Music Program Coordinator at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School. The piano has been his instrument of choice since he...
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...
