This field day is hosted by the Institute for Mindful Agriculture as part of the 2019 Biodynamic Conference in Lake George, NY. Our focus will be on describing our efforts over the years of “social soil building” in conjunction with the direct agricultural work. The day will begin at Hawthorne Valley Farm. We will have a tour of the farm and campus and then describe in more detail the history of the CSA, our internal food value chain, and the evolution of our management structure. Before we’ll travel to Hudson, NY we’ll have lunch at our Farmstore. In Hudson, we will visit Farm Ferments (a pioneering fermented vegetable production at scale) and the Rolling Grocer 19 (a new and innovative food equity project to benefit farmers and consumers in Columbia County). Both projects are collaborations that originated with Hawthorne Valley and attempt to address two of the most important challenges facing Biodynamics today. How do we answer the calls for food justice and how can we bring Biodynamics to scale responsibly?