Sprout
Creek Farm is a
200 acre working farm in Dutchess County, New York 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 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 States;
- to offer an experience
of community as a model of peaceable living in an age of increasing
chaos and disintegration;
- to educate a population
that is chronologically, economically and socially diverse to environmental
and social responsibility through study and experience;
- to offer 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 skills development; for spiritual
growth; and for experience of a simpler, more environmentally integrated
way of life.
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.
