The Threefold Center's Stewardship Mandate
Threefold is charged with the care of 140 acres of land that represents nearly every form of land use: undeveloped forest and wetland, agricultural buildings, gardens, single-family homes, and institutional and retail buildings. The Threefold Center’s mission includes ensuring that Threefold property is developed and used in ways that are true to the community’s values, preserving open space and natural beauty and developing land and buildings in an environmentally responsible manner using biodynamic principles and methods. Sustainability is only the starting point for the development of a truly thriving and abundant way of living on earth
Because the property under our charge is home to multiple and varied institutions – including a K-12 school, a college, and a retail food store – much of our work involves coordinating and harmonizing multiple long-term institutional plans while ensuring that all uses conform to applicable laws and are consistent with the community’s moral and spiritual principles.
The Center’s staff is the principal interface with village, town, county and state governments. It is the Center’s task to harmonize the needs of its constituent communities with the requirements of land use and zoning boards, neighboring property holders, and the like.
The fifty single-family homes that stand on Threefold property provide high-quality subsidized housing for students, staff and faculty of Green Meadow Waldorf School, Sunbridge College, and Eurythmy Spring Valley.
The principal on-campus residence for adult students in programs at Sunbridge College, Eurythmy Spring Valley, Threefold, and the Pfeiffer Center, Holder House was built in 1991 through a partnership of Sunbridge College and Threefold. This dorm contains 40 single rooms, four shared kitchens, and a coin-operated laundry.
Classroom and studio spaces on Threefold property provide educational settings for every level of education, ranging from 400 children at Green Meadow Waldorf School (grades K-12) to the hundreds of adults who each year attend full-time and part-time professional and personal development courses at Sunbridge College.