Welcome Back Next Weekend!
This morning, surrounded by friends and supporters, we proudly cut the ribbon on the new Learning Center at the Horn Farm. It was a joyful celebration and the beginning of a new chapter for this special place, one that will serve our community for years to come.
Now, we invite you to continue the celebration! Join us next Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 3 for Welcome Back Weekend – an open house and community celebration of the newly renovated farmhouse.
Saturday features our annual Plant Sale with live music, vendors and a bounty of organically-grown vegetables, flowers, and native plants. On Sunday, stop by for special programs like a willow craft talk and a sauerkraut demonstration.
We can’t wait to welcome you back to the Horn Farm!
Want to help make the new house a home for community connection and learning? Bring us a housewarming gift! Check out our Move-In Wish List for more info.
Support a More Resilient Future
Next week during Give Local York, you can help to ensure there will always be a place like this. Serving the Lower Susquehanna Riverlands and the Mid-Atlantic, the Horn Farm is a place to reclaim our skills in growing food, healing the land, and living locally.
Learn more and consider donating for Give Local York, beginning at 7PM on Thursday, April 30th.
Thanks to our generous annual sponsors and the Horn Farm Center Board of Directors, you can double your impact with over $11,000 in matching funds – available for 24 hours only during Give Local York.
Want to learn more about the positive change that the Horn Farm Center is making in our community? Tune in to our facebook page on Friday, May 1st from 12:30-1pm. Horn Farm Center staff will go live online to answer your questions and share updates from the farm!
Horn Farm Plant Sale is Next Saturday!
Horn Farm Center’s 14th Annual Plant Sale is back on Saturday, May 2nd, offering a wide selection of organically-grown vegetables, herbs, flowers, and native plants ready to bring beauty and abundance to your garden.
Whether you’re starting a new growing season or expanding an established space, you’ll find plants that support pollinators, improve soil health, and thrive in our region.
Enjoy a lively vendor market accompanied by live music with Tim Warmen and a chance to tour the new classroom in the farmhouse during Welcome Back Weekend!
We are grateful for our annual sponsors who help make events like this possible:
Horn Farm Plant Sale
Wildflower Walks & Spring Ephemerals
Spring wildflower walks in the south-central PA woods are a special treat – have you met any of our native ephemerals this year?
This past week, participants in our 2026 Regenerative Grower Training Program and greenhouse interns took a field trip to experience the magic of ephemerals at Green Light Plants Nursery, with Dale Hendricks. Highlights from the tour included one of our students seeing Jack-in-the-Pulpit for the first time, spotting the first zebra swallowtail of the season, and witnessing Dale’s flourishing polyculture native plant nursery.
What are spring ephemerals? Deriving their name from the Greek word meaning “lasting only a day” or “fleeting,” ephemerals are specialized species of flowers that only visit us for a short period of time each spring. They grow, bloom, and set seed all before the tree canopy has shaded out their forest floor home. Here one day, and gone the next! Virginia bluebells, ramps, trout lilies, and trillium are just a few examples of the treasured ephemerals now blooming in our area.
Elements of Survival: Spring Series
Learning to work with nature is a powerful way to build personal resilience and confidence. This spring, we invite you to reconnect with the natural world and build practical skills in Elements of Survival, a three-part wilderness series exploring the essential forces of Water, Earth & Air, and Fire with Stetler Survival.
Held Saturdays from 1–4pm beginning May 9, each hands-on class blends practical “make and take” projects with outdoor instruction—teaching you how to find and purify water, build shelter, and safely create and use fire.
Join for one session or the full series and leave with handmade tools, practical knowledge, and the confidence to thrive in the outdoors. Suitable for ages 12+ with an adult, and welcoming to beginners and experienced learners alike.
Check out Stetler Survival’s recent Micro-Survival Kit class at Horn Farm Center.