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Stories from around the Camphill international community
Tradition Highlight: Wreath Making
December 23rd, 2022
Join in on a Fun Holiday Crafting Tradition! If there's one thing you'll notice when you walk into most Camphill spaces, it's that they're filled with beautiful crafts. From woodworking to mosaics, or ceramics to weavery, you never know what new craft you might learn. In Camphill, crafting isn't just…
From Camphill to the Military to Rhode Island School of Design
July 19th, 2022
Julius Cavira volunteered with Camphill Communities California almost two decades ago. This spring, he requested a Camphill California patch to sew onto his robes for his art school graduation. The community was happy to oblige; we were curious: What inspired the request? Responsibility, courage, and humility A lifelong artist and…
Elias Rive, A Camphill Pioneer
July 06th, 2022
Elias Rive shares stories from his nearly seven decades of living in Camphill Communities Born in 1941 in Beverly Massachusetts, Elias is a true veteran of Camphill Communities. He found Camphill in 1954 and has been a hardworking and widely adored community member ever since. A biodynamic farmer in his…
How A Unique Gap Year Experience Started Feeling Like Home
May 01st, 2022
Three Camphill Volunteers' Stories of a Camphill Welcome and Settling Into Lifesharing Lifesharing is a unique, beautiful, and meaningful way of living in community, and it is at the core of how Camphill operates. Before joining the Camphill community, though, not many people have heard of lifesharing, and it can…
From Camphill to Medical School: Nicolo Betoni’s Gap Year
March 24th, 2022
A Gap Year at Camphill Helped Nicolo Stand Out to Interviewers Just a year ago, Camphill alum Nicolo Betoni was interviewing for medical school from a house beside Camphill Village Minnesota’s chicken coop. Today, he’s nearing the end of his first year at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where…
Tradition Highlight: Camphill Minnesota Birthday Interviews
March 14th, 2022
Birthday interviews spread the Camphill joy and give a peek into life in the village There’s nothing quite like a Camphill birthday. Across all of the communities, birthdays are huge celebrations, and just about everyone counts down the days until the next party. “Everyone loves to celebrate their own birthday,…
Brittany Archer Has Visited Fourteen Camphill Communities… And Counting!
May 09th, 2021
Brittany Archer Shares the Story of Her Camphill Journey In the decade since Brittany Archer first volunteered with Camphill, she’s traveled all around the world visiting fourteen Camphill communities. And she’s not done yet. Originally from the Bahamas, Brittany knew she wasn’t ready to go home after graduating from Florida…
These College Students Spent a Semester at Camphill For School Credit
March 09th, 2021
Antioch College Students Reflect on Their Time at Camphill Village in Copake, NY In fall 2020, three students joined Camphill Village in Copake, NY to compliment their studies at Antioch College in Ohio and make an impact as volunteers. Camphill has made an impact on them as well. Luisa Bieri,…
A Special Year: Reflections from a Camphill Volunteer
January 15th, 2021
Anna Falch Reflects Back On Her Year As A Camphill Volunteer At Plowshare Farm Two thumbs-up to celebrate the beginning of Anna's Camphill adventure Plowshare Farm is a Camphill affiliate in southern New Hampshire where a community of 50 people with diverse capabilities live and work side by side, creating…
Introducing the ’20-’21 Camphill Coworker Cohort
November 28th, 2020
Hear from a handful of volunteers on their time in Camphill so far Despite the unprecedented challenges the pandemic, Camphill is fortunate to welcome over 120 amazing new volunteers this year. Meet a few members of the '20/'21 cohort and learn about their Camphill journeys. Learn more about the Camphill…
Quarantining at Camphill: Distance, Warmth, and the Unknown Future
November 09th, 2020
By Matthew Goeztke and Diedra Heitzman This article was originally published in the Fall 2020 issue of Communities Magazine, which features many other compelling stories on how other intentional communities have responded to the pandemic. You can download a copy of the magazine here.) Matthew writes: I’m a 20-year-old Michigan native seeking to connect with the natural…
Reopening Schools: Lessons from Camphill
November 01st, 2020
Tips on How to Return to In-Person School from One That’s Done It The Camphill School is a private Waldorf school for children and youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Pennsylvania. It offers both boarding and day programs as well as therapeutic care for children in grades K-12, plus…
Camphill in the Time of Coronavirus
August 24th, 2020
How our communities have continued to thrive in the midst of a pandemic It goes without saying that the coronavirus pandemic has rocked the world, leaving only a handful of countries unaffected. In March 2020 cases spiked and many states issued stay-at-home orders while non-essential businesses shuttered. At the time…
Peace Corps Alumni in Camphill
August 14th, 2020
What do the Peace Corps and Camphill have in common? A lot, it turns out. Since she was a teenager, Liz Buttram has wanted to travel, help the Earth, and lend a hand to those in need. So after graduating with a degree in Natural Resource Management, she began her…
Elderflower Cordial Recipe
July 28th, 2020
Tips and Recipe from a Practiced Herbalist For Rebecca Bissonnette, summer is all about preserving the bounty of the land to enjoy year-round. And residing at Triform Camphill Community in New York’s idyllic Hudson River Valley, there’s quite a bounty. With a 420-acre campus lush with forests, fields, and organic,…
Gap Year Advice To Figure Out Your Next Step
June 26th, 2020
Trying To Figure Out What's Next? Here Are Five fulfilling Gap Year Ideas *Note: Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, many of the below programs are not currently running and have sent volunteers home. But, if you are still searching for a way to safely and enjoyably experience a gap…
Camphill Stands with Black Lives Matter
June 12th, 2020
In the Camphill movement, we understand our mission in terms of “Three Essentials”: an active recognition of the wholeness and dignity of every human being; a commitment to self-development in the service of others; and the striving to create inclusive community. The Camphill Association of North America holds these as…
Nourishing the Land and People: Growing at Plowshare Farm
January 22nd, 2020
At Plowshare Farm in Greenfield, each one of the residents strives to ask themselves, “Who am I, and who am I striving to be?” With that central question, every single person there not only seeks to propel their own growth, but to likewise see how they can assist their fellow…
Renewing the Heartland: Changing the way we see the midwest
December 19th, 2019
by Emma Ryan, volunteer in Camphill Village Minnesota Most of us have experienced “heartbreak” on some level. We know that when the heart is not well, it affects the wellbeing of the rest of our body - we cannot eat, sleep, often even move. The heart is more than a…
Caring For Our Trees: Fostering sustainable forestry on Glenora Farm
December 05th, 2019
by Markus Heinz of Glenora Farm, BC Canada “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” -ancient Greek proverb Here on the West Coast, the forest is everywhere around us and within us. West of the coastal mountain ranges, it’s…
Scotland to Vancouver Island: A volunteer reflection from Glenora Farm
December 10th, 2019
written by Glenora Farm volunteer Hannah Munro and featured in the Valley Voice in 2017 In January of this year, I boarded a plane from Aberdeen, Scotland headed for Vancouver Island. With a two-year open work permit to Canada and next-to-no plan, I was excited, and a little bit daunted.…
Colombia to New England – A volunteer reflects on a year at Heartbeet
December 09th, 2019
“I wanted to come to Heartbeet to help people, grow as a person and learn how to work in a community. I feel that all my wishes were fulfilled and I got even more than I expected.”
To Learn to Live: My personal unfolding from a year at Beaver Run
December 05th, 2019
By Benedikt Meßer, Coworker Alumnus ‘19 You are coming back from an exciting trip to New York City. You have seen more different people in an hour than you have seen in a month, rushing up and down the avenues. Honking cars, flashing lights, and billboards swarm in your head.…
The Kimberton Hills Gardeners On Why Growing in Community is Better
November 03rd, 2019
Erin, Eliza, and Jasper do not run a typical CSA. They co-manage a biodynamic garden that is truly supported by a community. Sankanac CSA(link is external) is nestled in an intentional community that is home to 120 people, including adults who have developmental and intellectual disabilities. Community members live together in the…