On Tuesday, April 28, Hawthorne Valley Farm’s dairy herd paraded to pasture for the first time this spring! Encouraged by the cheers and laughter of students from Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School and the Visiting Students Program, and community members, the cows galloped and pranced their way to the grassy field next to the play yard.
Over the April Spring Break, six Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School (HVS) high school students built the first stretch of the Biodiversity Trail at Hawthorne Valley in partnership with the Berkshires-based nonprofit Greenagers. The vision for the Biodiversity Trail emerged from a collaboration including farmers at Hawthorne Valley Farm (HVF), researchers at the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape
The Veggie Team at Hawthorne Valley Farm are excited to share that our CSA Growing Season is now 25 Weeks! Members will enjoy 3 extra weeks of our amazing organic and biodynamic produce and add-on items! From June through November, you will receive on average 6 (Partial Share) or 10 (Full Share) different vegetables according to the season. Members
Parents and community members are invited to join Hawthorne Valley Farm for a big onion planting! Work alongside the farmers, make some new friends, and take in the awesome-ness of the farm where our students learn and play. Meet up by the Apple Tree at the School Parking Lot at 8:15am, and we’ll walk to
To honor the 100th anniversary of Biodynamic Agriculture and the 30th year of the Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training (CRAFT), we spoke with some former Hawthorne Valley Farm apprentices to find out about their time at the farm and how that experience has lived with them on their lives’ journeys. We hope you enjoy
Parents and community members are invited to join us for a Community Farm Volunteer Day to work alongside the farmers, make some new friends, and take in the awesome-ness of the farm where our students learn and play. For all your fun and good work, you will go home with a selection of biodynamic veggies
Hawthorne Valley Farm is pleased to invite the community to sign up for a Fall CSA share. Get all the delicious end of summer/beginning of fall veggies to turn into all your favorite cool-weather comfort meals as the season transitions. CSA shares run through mid-December, and pick ups are at our Harlemville location on Fridays,
In May 2022, Hawthorne Valley Farm and Farmscape Ecology Program (FEP) teamed up to honor Hawthorne Valley’s 50th anniversary by planting a 350-foot long hedgerow, featuring the valley’s namesake hawthorn trees. Farmers, staff, students from Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School and the Visiting Students Program, and volunteers helped to plant over a dozen different varieties of
The farmers invite the public to join them on Thursday, May 30 at 8:15am for a Farm Community Workday with our vegetable team. Volunteers should meet at the apple tree by the school parking lot at 8:15am to walk to the field. The workday will end at 10:30am, but volunteers can feel free to leave
Hawthorne Valley is excited to join our fellow Biodynamic farms in a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Biodynamic Agriculture! Please join us at Mettabee Farm & Arts (551 Harlemville Rd, Hillsdale) enjoy live music, agricultural “20 Minute Talks,” demonstrations, children’s activities, and more! Admission is free, and delicious food is available for purchase.
