The Farm

Hawthorne Valley Farm is a 400-acre, diversified biodynamic farm across the street from the Hawthorne Valley School. The Farm is virtually self-sufficient, relying on its own feeds and compost and, in keeping with the tenets of biodynamic farming - which treats the land as a living organism - no fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides are used.

Integrating agriculture with education is an important component of our mission, and having the School and Farm share this valley is an ideal learning environment for students and teachers, children and adults. We also work closely with the Visiting Students Program, and we welcome any opportunity to bring people to the Farm.

Hawthorne Valley Farm is comprised of several different departments, all of which operate under the Farm's common management structure. The Farm (dairy herd, gardens, and pasture land), certified organic and biodynamic dairy processing plant (which makes yogurt, cheese, and quark from our cows' milk and bottles raw milk), Green Market (our farm stand at Union Square in New York City), Community Supported Agriculture program (provides vegetables to 220 members locally and in the New York City area for almost six months of the year), certified organic Bakery (breads, rolls, and pastries made with organic and biodynamic ingredients and fresh-ground flour), and complete grocery Farm Store work together toward attaining Hawthorne Valley Farm's vision of "nurturing the land that nourishes us."

Hawthorne Valley Farm
327 Route 21C
Ghent, New York 12075
518.672.7500 or 518.672.4465 - phone
518.672.4887 - fax
hawthornevalleyfarm.com - web