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
Join us on Saturday, May 3 from 10am-3pm for our May Day Celebration & Spring Fair to celebrate the season! Traditional May Pole dancing will start at 10am, followed by unique children’s activities (like Pillow Jousting and the Dragon Run!), delicious food, live music, select vendors, and more! Advanced Activity Passes & Puppet Show Tickets
Emily Hassell has spent her life being a bridge builder. Since her teenage years, she has sought to find ways to balance her efforts to help others practically while elevating social engagement to the arts. Today, she is bringing those two impulses together in her work as the founder and director of Alianza para el
Thank you to Rural Intelligence for sharing our Net Positive mission through this great article highlighting the current projects we have in the works across the association and what we have planned at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School over the summer. Excerpt: “We have a wholesale decarbonization plan at the school,” says campus director Josh Wise.
Applications for the 2025 Henriette Reiss Award for Artistic Endeavor are now open to all Alumni and the Class of 2025! Since 1993, this award has supported dozens of graduates in their artistic pursuits. We invite all alumni and graduating seniors to apply for this year’s award. Awarded amounts vary from year to year and have ranged from
For over 20 years, Marsha Dunn ’93 has been on a path of sharing creativity to help others in their own internal journeys. Her multidisciplinary career as an artist, designer, business owner, entrepreneur, and graphic facilitator has coalesced into her current role as Co-Founder and Creative Director of the nonprofit Sequinland Institute, an award-winning gap
As you explore this year’s Annual Impact Report, I hope you are inspired by the stories and reflections it holds. It is a testament to the interconnectedness that defines Hawthorne Valley—a place where education, art, agriculture, and ecological stewardship converge to create a vibrant living organism. In his opening letter, our Executive Director Martin Ping,
Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program (FEP) is pleased to receive an Ecological Restoration Grant from Partners for Climate Action Hudson Valley. The funding will support the installation of deer exclosure fencing to protect a population of Leatherwood (Dirca palustris), a rare native shrub in the Hudson Valley that suffers from heavy deer browse in the
by Stacy Szymaszek Yuuki Metreaud is a Math, Chemistry and practical arts teacher at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School (HVS) aswell as being analum. His love for science and the environment is rooted in a childhood fascination with insects, particularly bees. Growing up in the community, Yuuki spent afternoons watching his friend Ben Madey’s grandfather manage
