Horn Farm Happenings – August 4
Happy August! Celebrate First Friday with a delicious pizza topped with Horn Farm produce at John Wright Restaurant. Remember to ask for the Horn Farm pizza.
Lots of people agree that pizza is delicious, but what about insects???
Microherding Invertebrates
Raising invertebrates for food and farming can be fun, entertaining and rewarding – and meet many different needs.
On August 26, join William Padilla-Brown for discussion and demonstrations as he takes us on a journey through many different invertebrates – starting with our two ancient aquatic invertebrates, Brine Shrimp and Triops, then our Subterranean Red Wiggler worms, followed by crickets, roaches, mealworms, waxworms, superworms, BSF larvae, hornworms, their beetles, moths, and flies!
Participants will get hands-on time, setting up small habitats to take home with choice of crickets, roaches, mealworms, and/or Red Wiggler Worms. The course will end with a demonstration on how to cook with edible insects and participants who wish may participate in an Entomophagy (the eating of insects).
We are having a party!
October 11
Save the Date!
Healthy ecosystems maintain, fertilize, and renew themselves, naturally. Land management techniques that mimic such healthy ecosystems can produce food, fiber, medicine, and other products while simultaneously regenerating the landscape. In September, the Horn Farm Center is partnering with the Lancaster County Conservancy and Susquehanna Heritage to present Tending the Susquehanna Riverlands. Space is limited, register today!
Also in September:
Hugelkultur
Cooking Venison
Roasted Vegetables
Foraging
Pawpaw Festival
Wildlands Immersion: The Art of Seeing and the Science of Observation
We are looking for a volunteer or two to staff the Horn Farm Center display at Rudy Park on Saturday, August 12 from 9 to 12:30. If you can help, please let us know! Thanks!
The Farm Stand is open, and the tomatoes are here!
Come for just picked vegetables and fresh flower bouquets!
Saturdays from 9 to noon
4945 Horn Road, York, PA 17406
See you at the farm!
Our woodland restoration is well underway! Here’s the crew that helped transform a section of woods from a tangle of overgrowth to an accessible corridor. In just a few hours, this stream bed went from the conditions on the left to those on the right. The volunteers on this day came from the mid-Atlantic sales team at 
Wilson Alvarez (far left in photo above) is leading these work days. Wilson is a certified permaculture designer, inventor, gardener, skilled tracker, bowyer, nature-awareness instructor, and writer from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. For the past twelve years, he has studied and taught classes and workshops on bio-intensive agriculture, regenerative technology, foraging, hunting, trapping, tracking, and wilderness survival. He is teaching two series of workshops this fall: 
Born and raised along the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County, Brandon Tennis is a professional land manager and Director of Stewardship for the Lancaster County Conservancy. Brandon holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Millersville University and a master’s degree in Ecological Design from the Conway School in western Massachusetts. His experience includes an array of land planning, environmental restoration, trail work, organic farming, permaculture design, outdoor education, and social work. Brandon and his wife, Abby, first circled paths with the Horn Farm Center seven years ago when they made the decision to convert their CSA into a permaculture exhibit perennial food forest. Several travels and a few years later, they now grow food on a quarter-acre residential lot in Marietta primarily for themselves and their daughter. Brandon believes in the value of farmscapes as functional ecosystems. Welcome, Brandon!
Please join us in thanking the crew at 
The farm stand is open Saturdays from 9 to 12. Find fresh produce and bouquets of flowers all grown here at the farm. You can also find our flower bouquets at the