Hawthorne Valley Farm

Hawthorne Valley Farm has been producing high quality, Biodynamic and organic foods and providing farm-based education opportunities for children and adults since 1972. The farm was established by a group of educators, farmers, and artisans in response to the troubling loss of small family farms and what they perceived as a threat to childhood development posed by an increasingly materialistic and mechanistic world view. Now the farm is joined by a Waldorf school, ecology and research centers, and a publishing house, all part of the non-profit Hawthorne Valley Association. Steffen Schneider, director of farm operations, came to the farm in 1980 as an apprentice after studying agriculture in his native Germany.