We invite you to visit our beautiful campus and witness the magic of a Waldorf Early Childhood education. RSVP to enrollment@ovws.org

Orchard Valley welcomes you to participate in our Community Winter Spiral. The experience of walking the spiral reflects the human experience at this time of the year - a season of less light, shorter days, longer nights and going forward with hope to welcome the light of the sun after the winter solstice.

Come play with wool! We will have samples of wool from raw to knit garment to show the full process. There will be spinning wheels on hand to learn and practice hand spinning and supplies ready to learn the basics of knitting as well. If you are a beginner spinner or knitter or just curious how wool is processed this is the class for you. 

Go into the holiday season with a clear vision of what you want this time to be like for your family. Learn tools for experiencing the holidays with less stress, centered and content. We will also cover tips for scheduling, conversations with extended family around gifting and food. Join Marianne Perchlik a Waldorf Morning Garden teacher and Maria Leon, a parenting coach for this interactive Zoom workshop.

Participants will learn about food as medicine, seasonal eating, ancestral foods, and taste nourishing broths and elixirs. Everyone will help make, and go home with, fire cider, and bring home a recipe packet to continue their healing food explorations.

Please join us for an evening of remembering and sharing recollections of those we love who have crossed over the threshold between life and death. RSVP is required (click to read more).

Join Alan LePage and Jung Kim for a workshop that will provide both the practical aspects of making kimchi (tools and ingredients) and the less tangible but invaluable musings of a lifelong farmer from Central Vermont. Come home with jars of kimchi and valuable preservation skills!

This hands-on workshop will incorporate the joys of farming, gardening, animal husbandry and land stewardship with some tools and ideas to assist in connecting with the unseen energetic intelligences, creating an environment for spiritual exploration and co-creation.

Dan Morse from Heartbeet Lifesharing will present a synopsis of Rudolf Steiner's 'Agriculture' lectures given 100 years ago, which gave birth to the Biodynamic movement. Participants will have the opportunity to prepare the Horn Manure prep, and enjoy an artistic experience.

Join us for a beloved fall tradition, our Community Harvest festival, on Saturday October 5th 10am-1pm.

(Storm date October 6st).

Join Admissions Director Teri Page for a tour of the Grace Farm campus, including our Grades 1-8 and Mixed-Age Kindergarten programs.

Join Nicko Rubin of East Hill Tree Farm nursery to learn all about growing and managing fruit trees holistically.

Celebrate the arrival of spring on our beautiful Grace Farm campus!

Festivities include maypole dancing, a visit from King Winter and Lady Spring, crafts, a puppet show. Bring your own picnic lunch!

Rain date May 12th 10am - 1pm

Join Victoria. Mansuri, OVWS Handwork Teacher, in a special Valentine-making workshop.

Create Danish Heart Baskets for Valentine's Day ~ to fill with sweets for your sweetheart! Danish heart baskets are traditionally hung on the Christmas tree. Adapting them for Valentine’s Day gives them a time to shine on their own! Read more to Regsiter!

Eurythmy is a social art of making sound visible developed by Rudolf Steiner and practiced in Waldorf schools to strengthen social harmony in the class, reinforce rhythms and qualities embodied in speech and language as well as much more.

RSVP requested.

Join Marianne Perchlik and Victoria Mansuri for an exploration of the foundations of Literacy. This interactive evening features an artistic felt craft. RSVP is required (Click to read more…)

Are you looking for a new bike for summer riding? Does your bike need some love and repair? OR, Do you have a bike sitting unused in your shed?

The Orchard Valley Bike Sale and Repair is for you!

This 2-Day Workshop is perfect for beginning and experienced gardeners alike. Instructor Alan LePage is a 7th generation Vermont farmer and pioneer of the organic agricultural movement.

REGISTER HERE

A workshop for parents of young children (ages 1-6 years) with Mária Leon and Marianne Perchlik

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Birth is a right of passage that transforms us and can leave us with lasting questions, or even trauma that reduces our confidence in parenting, or leaves disturbances in the flow of our close family communication. Come join this two-part event of transformative sharing, led by Marianne Perchlik.

Join this conversation about the nature of the human being that informs our teaching at Orchard Valley Waldorf School.

Come visit us! Get an introductory look at our programs in action during our walk-through open houses the first Wednesday of each month. Pre-register, please! Call Cathie Ely at 802-456-7400 or email enrollment@ovws.org.

Join us for this beautiful day of activities promoting peace, love, and joyful embrace of community on our Grace Farm campus! Candle-dipping, wet felting, face painting, and much more!

Join the Orchard Valley community for our Winter Concert in honor of the season! December 20th, 5:30 pm, First Presbyterian Church of Barre. All grades will be performing!

Join with other first-time parents for this unique six-week Birthing From Within Childbirth Class to prepare for the new lifelong journey that awaits! Registration form available here.

The Central Vermont community is invited to walk the Winter Spiral at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 5. Please join us in filling the nighttime with light. Follow the path from the parking lot between the Farmhouse and Grades buildings. We’ll meet in the field just off the path near the Farmhouse.