Community Farm Volunteer Day

Sep 13, 2024

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...

Fall CSA from Hawthorne Valley Farm

Sep 12, 2024 | Farm, School

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...

Apprentice Spotlight – Sylvana Szuhay

Jul 11, 2024 | Farm, News from the Farm

Sylvana is a member of our veg team and brings her enthusiasm for working in the elements to work with the land and grow good food for the community. Her childhood in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts really sowed the seeds for her interest in farming. She...

Bringing Biodiversity and Beauty to the Landscape

Jun 7, 2024 | Farm, Net Positive

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...

Earth Day Tree Planting

Apr 26, 2024 | News

On Earth Day, as part of broader spring tree and shrub plantings across the farm, the Farm team added over thirty trees to the cow lane. The farmers planted a mixture of Red Oak, Pin Oak, and Black Locust bare root saplings. While it will take about five to ten years...