Threefold Community Farm Archive

07/09/2025

04/03/2024

It was a cozy morning in the greenhouse for our volunteer day! Interested in joining us next time? Sign up to receive volunteer updates here:
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03/25/2024

Now hiring two farm interns for the upcoming season! Employment runs from April 29th through November 22nd. Application deadline is in just two weeks, on March 31st. Read full details: https://threefoldcommunityfarm.org/learn/farm-internship/

03/20/2024

Our spring classes for children are filling up! We have a few spots remaining for our Farm and Garden class on Wednesdays from 3:45-5:15. For ages 6-13. Details: https://threefoldcommunityfarm.org/learn/youth-programs/

03/14/2024

Seeing Nature Whole with Craig Holdrege
Life Rhythms & Planting Calendar with Sherry Wildfeuer

March 23 @ 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Side Room at Threefold Auditorium
260 Hungry Hollow Road
Chestnut Ridge, NY

In the morning, Craig Holdrege explores how to work with the living dynamic qualities of plants and animals to better understand the world around us. In the afternoon, Sherry Wildfeuer, a long-time editor of the Stella Natura planting calendar, explains how the calendar is created, what it tells us, and how we can use it to learn to work with, rather than against, nature’s rhythms and forces.

Craig is a biologist, an educator, and Director of The Nature Institute in Ghent, NY, a research and education organization for a unique qualitative approach to science. Craig is the author of many books and articles on genetic engineering, genetics, and a holistic, Goethean approach to science.

Sherry is the editor of the Stella Natura Biodynamic Planting Calendar, a co-worker at Camphill Village Kimberton Hills, PA, and a long-time active member of the Anthroposophical Society and the Agriculture Section of the School of Spiritual Science.

Visit https://threefoldcommunityfarm.org/event/seeing-nature-whole-life-rhythms-and-planting-calendar/ for more information and to register.

02/29/2024

Join our weekly Community Farm Class.
Learn how to grow food and care for the farm animals!

At Threefold Community Farm’s Community Farm Class, we welcome anyone interested in learning about gardening and farming. Through the seasons, our work is always different, but equally important.

The multiaged class Community Farm Class welcomes all abilities and levels of experience to the garden; work together to accomplish daily tasks on the farm while learning how to grow food and care for the animals as a community.

1:30-3 pm Tuesdays
From March 12, 2024, onwards
Ongoing open enrollment!

Visit https://threefoldcommunityfarm.org/learn/youth-programs/community-farm-class/ for more information and to register.

02/14/2024

The Individualized Farmscape and Pruning Fruit Trees
February 24 @ 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Side Room at Threefold Auditorium
260 Hungry Hollow Road
Chestnut Ridge, NY

Hugh Williams, one of the best orchardists in the East and a biodynamic farmer for over forty five years, brings his perspective on harnessing the local ecology to cultivate the farm individuality. Also covered: the science and art of pruning fruit trees, including a few hours of pruning the Pfeiffer Center’s orchard under Hugh’s expert guidance.

Hugh is the owner of Threshold Farm in Philmont, NY. He has been growing fruit trees and orchards using biodynamic methods on a commercial scale for more than forty five years.

Visit https://threefoldcommunityfarm.org/event/the-individualized-farmscape-and-pruning-fruit-trees/ to register.

01/19/2024

Threefold Community Farm seeks a full-time Vegetable Grower and Co-Manager of Farm Operations with extensive knowledge of regenerative farming practices, excellent communication skills, servant leadership capacities, proficiency with tractor and/or draft power, and experience in biodynamic farming to join our collaborative management team. This person will work collaboratively with our other managers to fulfill the mission of Threefold Community Farm and share responsibilities for several areas that align with the skill set they bring.

For more information and to apply, visit Join Our Team web page at https://threefoldcommunityfarm.org/resources/join-our-team/

Threefold Community Farm is a collaborative initiative between The Fellowship Community and the Threefold Educational Foundation. Our mission is to care for the living being of our land using biodynamics to grow food with living forces that nourish the whole human being; to foster a learning community where people can develop a loving relationship to the land; and to build a rich inclusive social life serving our home and surrounding communities.

01/11/2024

Celebrating the Centennial of the Agriculture Course: Approaching the Agricultural Individuality

Public lecture by Mac Mead
Friday, January 12, 2024, at 7:30 pm
Threefold Auditorium
260 Hungry Hollow Road
Chestnut Ridge NY

To register for the talk, visit https://threefoldcommunityfarm.org/event/the-agricultural-individuality-celebrating-100-years/

Mac Mead will look at the context and significance of Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture lectures given in June 1924 in Koberwitz, Silesia, and focus on a central theme, the agricultural individuality. What are the What, Why, How, and When of this guiding star of biodynamic work?

MAC MEAD mentors Threefold Community Farm staff and interns. Mac began farming in 1975, when he had the “privilege and good fortune” to learn biodynamic methods directly from former co-workers of biodynamic pioneer Ehrenfried Pfeiffer at the Fellowship Community. In 2006, Mac became the Program Director of the Pfeiffer Center. The core instructor of our Biodynamic Course, Mac regularly speaks at conferences of the Biodynamic Association (BDA), the Northeast Organic Farming Association, and the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. In 2016, he was an invited speaker at “The Spirit of Sustainable Agriculture,” a conference of the Harvard Divinity School.

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Mac Mead's talk will open the biodynamic conference
MidWinter Agriculture Intensive
Friday, January 12 - Monday, January 15

For more information and to register, visit https://threefoldcommunityfarm.org/event/midwinter-agriculture-intensive-2024/

01/11/2024

Join us “over the winter” in our Winter Farm Arts youth program for ages 7-14!

January 19 - March 29, 2024
Fridays, 1:30 pm – 3 pm

Threefold Community Farm
At the Pfeiffer Garden across from 275 Hungry Hollow Road
Chestnut Ridge, NY

The Winter Farm Arts course for youth introduces a series of hands-on, farm-to-table arts skills that inspire and renew the gardeners’ creative spirit during the quieter months on the farm. During this course, students engage in activities that connect to the work that farmers experience, guide, and create in the garden. As the weather warms, we will return outside and prepare for an early spring planting.

Each class will consist of a brief introduction of the topic, a demonstration of the project, and a hands-on activity complete with a take home project.

For further details about the course, click on the image below to visit our web page...

Winter Farm Arts Course for Youth As the weather cools, the last of the season’s crops are harvested and the farm beds are put to rest. Over the winter, the farmers will often look inwards and spend this quieter time reconnecting and renewing their creative spirits. Yet, there is still some activi...