This month, the Organic Farm School will begin relocating to the Maxwelton Valley, setting up shop for students to arrive in March 2017.

“We loved being at Greenbank Farm,” said OFS Executive Director, Judy Feldman. “Yet we realized that last year’s changes gave us an opportunity to look for other locations that might provide more stability and a more unified vision for our work.”

That opportunity made possible a conversation with Ron and Eva Sher in Maxwelton Valley. They have been reassembling pieces of the historic Feek Farm for years and just this past December had begun to ask themselves how they could return some of the farm acreage to agriculture.

“We didn’t have any clear sense of a path forward, but we trusted that something would come to us,” Eva Sher said.

There is still a lot of work to be done in fleshing out an agreement, but neither parties see any roadblocks.

The Shers and the school anticipate finalizing written agreements by mid-April and the school will be undertaking a significant fundraising campaign to support the transition from Greenbank to the Maxwelton Valley.

For more information, go to http://organicfarmschool.org