Sprout Creek Farm
Sprout Creek Farm is a working farm, an educational center, a retail market, a peaceful sanctuary, a summer camp, a place for intellectual inquiry... Sprout Creek Farm is all these things.
Encompassing 200 acres in Dutchess County, NY, Sprout Creek Farm is really three different entities, distinct yet dynamically entertwined. It is a working farm, raising free-ranging cows, sheep, goats, wild turkeys, guinea fowl, chickens, and pigs. It is a market, selling our internationally award-winning cheeses and farm-produced meats, as well as local Hudson Valley milk, eggs, vegetables, crafts, and gifts. And it is an educational center, offering day, weekend, and summer programs that help connect young people to the land, the seasons, and the plants and animals that co-exist here in harmonious rhythm. Sprout Creek Farm, Inc. is a 501c3 incorporated not-for-profit organization and your gifts are tax-deductible.
Sprout Creek Farm Mission
As well as producing and selling our meats and cheeses, the purposes of the farm are:
•to provide educational experiences for children and adults that will foster appreciation for, and understanding of, our place within the natural world, and thus encourage responsibility for the future of our environment
•to offer programs that will reconnect people to the rich agricultural heritage of the United States
•to offer an experience of community as a model of peaceful living
•to offer programs in spiritual development, using the agricultural resources of the farm as both setting and starting point of such programs
Network Happenings at Sprout Creek Farm
2012-2013
Space in all programs is limited and filled on a first come first served basis. You may choose as many as you like, but don't wait 'til the cows come home to apply! You can pay using any credit card, or send in your check. We will confirm your reservation by email.
December 4-9, 2012
Villa Duchesne Middle School
Thursday, November 29-Sunday, December 2
Spirit of the Land
How can you connect yourselves to generations of human effort? Effort that enabled the success of our species? One way is to experience the life of the farmer. Farming began as a necessary step toward a different social order, one that could take care of one of our most pressing needs: hunger and the quest for food. There is more, however. Through the experience of farming with others, you will find that combined effort not only gets the job done, but feeds our age old instinct for communal success instead of the often lonely success of individual achievement. Solving problems together keeps our egos in check, our hearts wide open, our spirits brimming with gratitude, and our celebrations full of energy, humor, and the will to do more and better.
We invite Network educators to come to Sprout Creek Farm. Experience life as farmers know it. Feel history in your bones. Know the world that is in your hands.
When: Thursday, November 29 dinner until Sunday, December 2 noon
Where: Sprout Creek Farm, Poughkeepsie, New York
Cost: $350.00
Deadline to Apply:
November 9, 2012
Please e-mail Georgie Blaeser,rscj at gblaeser@rscj.org to reserve a place, give her a call at 845-485-8438 or mail your completed application to:
Georgie Blaeser
Sprout Creek Farm
34 Lauer Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
Adult Application
Flight Information
What to Bring...
January 10-13, 2013
Network Adult Program focused on Goat Birthing
January 20-26, 2013
Network Mini Exchange-Goat Birthing, Session 1
February 3-9, 2013
Network Mini Exchange Program, Goat Birthing, Session II
February 15-22, 2013
Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton 6th grade girls, Spirituality and Leadership Program
February 24- March 1, 2013
Villa Duchesne Middle School
March 7-9, 2013
Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, 11th grade Retreat
March 17-23, 2013
Bloomfield, Inter Session
April 1-5, 2013
Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton High School
April 12, 2013
Convent if the, Sacred Heart, Greenwich 6th Grade Farm Day
April 23, 2013
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Sophomore Retreat
May 23-24, 2013
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich, 4th grade