Purposes and Activities

Sprout Creek Farm is a working farm that provides an integrated context for educational and spiritual development programs for young people and adults.

The purposes of the Farm are:

• to provide a setting of natural beauty and educational experiences for children and adults that will foster an 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 children and adults to the rich agricultural heritage of the United Sizes;
• to offer an experience of community as a model of peaceable living in an age of increasing disintegration:
• to educate a population which is chronologically, economically and socially diverse to environmental and social responsibility through study and experience;
• to offer persons programs in spiritual development, using the agricultural resources of the farm as both setting and starting point of such programs;
• to help create new channels for action and new structures for a more enlightened interdependent world.

These purposes require a program of farm work, serious study, service and communal living. They provide opportunities for responsibility and decision-making; for cognitive, affective, and physical skill development; for spiritual growth; and for experience of a simpler, more environmentally integrated way of life.

The farm is a vehicle for education, for an understanding of agriculture as it interfaces with life in urban centers, suburban communities, and the natural world. It's also a local source of food for the community that surrounds it: milk from its cows and goats is made into cheese, and is aged and sold at Sprout Creek. In startling clarity, and utter simplicity, their soil and their sunshine become food on the table.

The experiences of the farm enhance awareness, foster an informed compassion, and evoke the desire to become an agent of change in our troubled global society.

Contact

Sprout Creek Farm
34 Lauer Rd.
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
845-485-8438
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*Photo by Georgie Blaeser, rscj