Join the Orchard Valley community for our Winter Concert in honor of the season! 

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.

Join Marianne Perchlik and OVWS Parent Council in this needle felted bird workshop. We will create beautiful felted bird ornaments together and discuss how to imbue your home with purpose and beauty during this seasonal change. This is a fundraising event and the bird ornaments will be sold at the East Calais General Store.

Join us for a beloved fall tradition, our Community Harvest festival, on Saturday, September 27th from 10am-1pm.

(Storm date September 28th).

Come visit us! Get an introductory look at our programs in action during our Waldorf Wednesday immersive tours. RSVP required.

Please note this is an Adults-Only event.

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!

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).

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

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.

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.

Help Orchard Valley cross the Fall Appeal finish line during Giving Tuesday! Check our Facebook and Instagram pages for peeks into the day, parent testimonials, and more.

* Herbal goodies handcrafted by our Parent Council for the first 12 donors who donate more than $50!

Treat yourself to this fun holiday shopping event with gifts handcrafted by the finest local artisans!
At Vermont College of Fine Arts, 36 College Street, Montpelier
Follow us on Facebook for sneak peeks from Holiday Market vendors!

Join us for this talk and discussion with Kate Winslow, educator and farmer in Washington, VT, about the basic principles and practices of biodynamic farming and gardening and how these differ from other organic and conventional methods. Learn more…