Homefields in the News
Click to download our press packet, which provides useful background, stats, contact info, and more.
May 15, 2025: Homefields’ president Allison G. Hawthorne and Farm Manager Tony Beers appeared on Good Day PA! to discuss our programs and announce the CSA’s opening day on May 30. Click to see the video.
May 9, 2025: Homefields appeared in One United Lancaster, the newsletter of United Way of Lancaster, where Program Coordinator Andrew Phillips outlined the scope of our programs. Click for story.
April 16, 2025: TownLively announced our Open Farm in a full-length article. Click for story.
Oct 14 2024: Ben McClure and Jeff Giagnocavo from Lancaster Connects recorded a live 1-hour podcast featuring Homefields president Allison G. Hawthorne and Conestoga Valley High Schools’s Jay Grisafi. Their topic was how the synergy between the two organizations foster vocational training opportunities in Lancaster.
Sept 2024: Art Petrosemolo rounded out Homefields in Lancaster Farming—the care farm, volunteers, and some of our history. Read the article here.
Sept 2024: After touring the property, Ed Blanchette showcased Homefields to the readership of Amish Country News. Read the article here.
Sep 2024: Dominique Didier (Homefields board member, CSA member, volunteer, and Millersville University professor) was featured in LNP for her project to plant serviceberry bushes on MU's campus. Read more here.
May–Nov 2024: The United Way of Lancaster County awarded Homefields a $22K “Level Up & Launch” grant to provide an agricultural workforce training program to four local high schools. Click to read more.
May 2024: Jim Determan, one of Homefields’ five co-founding families, recently celebrated his 100th birthday and was featured on the front page of Lancaster Newspapers. Read about him here.
April 29, 2024: LNP / LancasterOnline reported on our Open Farm event from the day before. Nearly 150 folks toured the property on a beautiful sunny day. Click on the image to read the PDF.
For their 111th podcast, Lancaster Connects extensively interviewed Homefields president Allison Hawthorne about our events and missions, and the network of organizations that we’re connected with. Click on the image to view.
Homefields has a presence in the Winter 2022 issue of Fig Magazine, Lancaster, giving us exposure to a broader audience.
Annajane Williams and Carol Welsh represented Homefields at Millersville University’s 2022 ComMUnity Fest, relaying opportunities for volunteering and answering questions about Homefields in general. Read about it here.
Homefields Care Farm received organic certification from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Pennsylvania Certified Organic in July of 2022. Click on the image to access the official press release in PDF form.
Homefields Care Farm was featured in Eden Streets: Association of Farmers with Social Missions, on June 27, 2022. Click on the image for their blog or here for a PDF.
