- United States of America
- New York
About Program
GROWING RADICAL is Place Corps’ Summer Intensive Gap Program for 17- 22 year olds. Are you interested in learning practical skills for radical living on a 900-acre Biodynamic ® Farm in the Hudson Valley?
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Come hike the mountains, farm the fields, and build the future! You can expect to live in an eco-village, be certified in permaculture design, learn to grow and process your own food, build green, wildcraft, create collaboratively, plus more. Emerge from Place Corps with a calling to know, love, and serve the next place in your life.
WHERE?
Place Corps main learning and living campus is located at Hawthorne Valley Farm in Ghent, NY.
Hawthorne Valley Farm (est. 1972) is a diversified, 900-acre Demeter certified 650A Biodynamic® farm (Demeter remains the oldest ecological certification organization in the world) in upstate New York. The farm is also USDA certified organic and Animal Welfare Approved.
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Program Highlights
- Biodynamic Farming
- Green Building
- Entrepreneurship
- Social Justice
- Ecology