Community and Education
 

A founding principal of Gravity Hill Farm is to work within our community to help educate about food and sustainable farming. We want the farm to be a place where community can happen — and now we have the perfect space for it. With both a certified kitchen and an outdoor bread/pizza oven, we will host small-group cooking classes with kids and adults as well as community events that feature locally-grown and prepared foods.

The farm's community building has been the dream of Co-owner Maria Nicolo who had to learn (a lot) about vegetables but spent her first career as an educator and community organizer.

For more information about educational opportunities at the farm, contact Maria at (609)737-2834.


Growing Community

We are proud to serve our community healthy, whole foods in a way that nurtures both our need for connection with each other and with our natural environment.


Growing the School Garden Movement

Gardens grown by school children teach both healthy eating habits and responsibility and respect for the environment. They can also be an interdisciplinary way to teach school subjects like math and science.

Gravity Hill Farm donates supplies, seeds and time to schools in Hopewell Valley to encourage this important work. We also offer farm tours to educational groups and community organizations.

As parents of children in the Hopewell Valley School District, we heartily support the farm to school movement and the efforts to provide our children with a healthy lunch at school.

Our son, John, comes home from school every day asking when he will have more time for lunch and when the food will taste better. “We’re working on it,” we tell him.

We are proud members of grassroots groups tackling these hard issues: Real Food for Thought, the New Jersey School to Farm Network and NOFA-NJ.

To find out more about their work, go to:

www.RealFoodForThought.org

www.NJFarmtoSchool.org

www.nofanj.org

 

 

 

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