This article is based on a talk given by Steffen and Rachel Schneider at the 2004. Biodynamic Conference in Dornach, Switzerland. The theme of the symposium was "Money and Agriculture." Hawthorne Valley Farm is part of a larger not-for-profit corporation, the Hawthorne Valley Association. This initiative started in 1972 at its present location - in Harlemville, New York — as the Rudolf Steiner Education and Farming Association and was long known as the "Farm School." Karl Ege, one of the founders, expressed the guiding vision with the following words: "What we are founding here is a seed, the seed of a living organism. The organism is essentially threefold - pedagogical, artistic, and agricultural - as reflection of thought, feeling and the will. Each needs the other if the whole is to flourish. All are inter-related. . . ."
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