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Jan 29 2022

Winter Botany Workshop – Session I

Crellin Park

Feb 12 2022

Winter Botany Workshop – Session II

Crellin Park

Feb 13 2022

A Road to Sacred Creation: An Overview

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Book Launch: A Road to Sacred Creation

Book Launch: A Road to Sacred Creation

Hawthorne Valley’s Center for Social Research is pleased to announce the publication of A Road to Sacred Creation: Rudolf Steiner’s Perspectives on Technology, a Compendium, Vol 1. The book is edited by Gary Lamb and published by SteinerBooks. This book charts both an...

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Book Launch: A Road to Sacred Creation

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It's that bittersweet time of year when the farm b

It's that bittersweet time of year when the farm begins to say 'goodbye' in one breath and 'hello with the next. Our apprentices that started in January of 2021 have begun to trickle out with our 2022 apprentices due to start arriving mid February.

Each apprentice and volunteer becomes such an ingrained member of the farm team that its always hard to imagine the farm without them. Each new season, however, brings new faces and new beings that before we know it, also become so special and needed to us. The farm couldn't exist without the participation and perspectives of our apprentices and it is with deep gratitude and appreciation that we say good bye and best wishes to our most recent cohort and with excitement and enthusiasm, hello to our next!
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Taiga brought us a very sweet little bull calf a c

Taiga brought us a very sweet little bull calf a couple of weeks ago! He is 1/2 pure Normande, as his mom and dad were also both 1/2 pure Normande.
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Normande genetics are a newer breed we have introduced to our herd within the past 5 years. This breed is often sought for farms like ours for their “dual function,” meaning they are good milk producers but are also great beef animals. Adding these new genetics also helps diversify our gene pool, allowing for all kinds of breed crosses to emerge. This calf is 1/2 Normande but also has some Jersey, Brown Swiss, Devon, and possibly even some Holstein and Gurnsey 🐄✨
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The Normande genes have been presenting themselves in calves lately with these “mask” like facial features, and brown/black and white spots that are reminiscent of Holstein markings, but with more color and shape variation. See if you can spot our Normandes over on the @cowednesday feed! #cowednesday

Ice has many personalities, while our last ice pos

Ice has many personalities, while our last ice posting juxtaposed cold (ice) and warm (moss), this one focuses on the different forms of motion visible when ice distills water’s flow into solidness.
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This week, members of the HV farm team and surroun

This week, members of the HV farm team and surrounding community traveled south to the Three Fold Foundation in Chestnut Ridge, New York to attend the Annual Agriculture Section meeting of The School for Spiritual Science. This three day conference focuses on The Quality of Biodynamic Products for Human Beings and the Earth. Our participating farmers, who were only able to take part in a portion of the event, left with much food for thought after attending lectures on cosmic and earthly nutrition for both human beings and the animals on our farms.
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Farmer Jess reflects that, "It can be too easy to underestimate the value and importance of good nutrition, even as a Biodynamic farmer. We owe it to ourselves, our animals and our world to slow down and really try to understand how these relationships work so that we can invest our time and efforts into their continued improvement."
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We also learned that feeding carrots to calves promotes specific developments that take place at this young age. Bert was willing to be an initial test subject back on our farm!

Our Place Based Learning Center is hiring educatio

Our Place Based Learning Center is hiring educational interns for our camp season!

Interns and full-time Program Managers lead farm-based learning activities such as baking bread, cleaning the barn, gardening, riding horses, animal care, preparing meals, exploring our woods, farm and nature based crafts, and many other activities. All staff members are responsible for nurturing the physical, emotional, social and spiritual well-being of each child. Interns share the Main House living space with the visiting classes and summer camp and eat meals with the children when overnight programs are in session.

This internship is a meaningful way to gain knowledge and insight about Waldorf education, Biodynamic agriculture, and residential education. Compensation includes room and partial board (organic mostly vegetarian meals) plus an $1,000 per month stipend. Housing is small and cannot accommodate partners, children or pets of this candidate. If you are at least 21 years of age, enjoy working with children, have a love of the outdoors, animals and farm life, consider joining us!

The dates of the internship are February 21st, 2022 – June 3rd, 2022. For more info or to apply, follow the link in our bio.

This is a wonderful time of year to tune back into

This is a wonderful time of year to tune back into the beauty and variety of winter buds on trees and shrubs! It is also a nice time to become more familiar with woody plants in winter using a holistic approach, considering clues given by the habitat, the shape of the plant, the bark, the buds, its fallen leaves/fruits, its smell, and more...
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This winter, the Farmscape Ecology Program is thus repeating (perhaps with some additional tweaks) the "Woody Plants in Winter—A Self-guided Course", which they created last winter. They'll return to Crellin Park and PS21 in Chatham and reflag the trees by January 15. You can then review the on-line materials (including three videos of Conrad introducing 30 "first tree friends") and then visit the corresponding flagged trees/shrubs at Crellin Park and PS21 in Chatham at your leisure from January 15 - March 20.
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In addition, the FEP team plans to offer an in-person, outdoor Winter Botany workshop in three sessions (corresponding to the three sets of flag colors):
• Saturday, Jan. 29, 1-3pm (Crellin Park, Chatham)
• Saturday, Feb. 12, 1-3pm (Crellin Park, Chatham)
• Saturday, Feb. 26, 1-3pm (PS21, Chatham)
This workshop is free, participant number will be limited to 10, and participants are expected to wear masks when not able to keep six feet apart from each other. Please register with fep@hawthornevalleyfarm.org to reserve your space. Preference will be given to participants planning to join all three sessions.
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