Rachel Schneider is Director Emeritus of the Hawthorne Valley Farm Place Based Learning Center which focuses on farm based educational programming for children and families and professional training in the vocation of agriculture. Rachel holds a Master’s degree in Waldorf education. Rachel was part of management at Hawthorne Valley Farm for over 20 years. She held the position of market gardener and CSA coordinator for Hawthorne Valley Farm. During this time, she was able to develop the CSA program and participated in founding the farm apprentice enrichment program called CRAFT (Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training) both of which began in 1994. Currently Rachel leads a food access and affordability project in Columbia County; as part of that work, she co-manages the Rolling Grocer 19 (www.rollinggrocer19.org) store in Hudson, which features an innovative 3-tier-pricing-system.
