Education and resource center, barn, and student residence

Back of education and resource center

Front of education and resource center

Front of student residence

Dining area (tables made from wood from Beaver Run by Transition Program woodworking crew)

Education and resource center, barn, and student residence

Back of education and resource center

Education and resource center multi-purpose room

Back of student residence

Front of student residence

Equipment shed

Side view of education and resource center

Education and resource center multi-purpose room

Education and resource center therapy space

Front exterior of student residence

Ceiling and beam detail of student residence Great Room

Great Room fireplace

Rear exterior of the residence on March 3, 2011

Pipes for the Geothermal heating and cooling system

Hall to student rooms and lounge

Education and resource center from front

Education and resource center from back

Beam detail in multi-purpose room

Front of student residence

Side view of student residence

From our newsletter, the Radius:

"The Transition Program had a lovely “topping off” ceremony for our new education and resource center at Beaver Farm on Wednesday, December 15th. The “topping off” is when the last board is put on the roof and this board was a very special one. Guy [Note: Director of Development Guy Alma] asked us all to think of a word for: “Under this roof, let there be .............” and on Wednesday there were all our words on the last board! We can’t list them all here, but we spoke them all as part of the ceremony and we named good things such as happiness, laughter, coziness, truth, spirit, and fellowship. While the carpenters nailed our board on the roof we all sang Christof-Andreas’ House Blessing song, clapped and hurrahed when it was done, and then all went into our new hall for cookies and hot cider."

Foundation walls of education and resource center

Front view of student residence

Side view of student residence

Drilling wells for geothermal heating and cooling system

Progress on foundation education and resource center

Site of education and resource center

Education and resource center foundation poured

Site of student residence

Camphill Special School Board of Directors at the Beaver Farm Ground Breaking. From left to right: Guy Alma, Akil (Beaver Farm student), Andreas Schad, Bernie Wolf, Ray Ripper, Else Wolf, Scott Williams, Warren Gleicher, Claus Sproll, Brian Epstein, Ursel Pietzner, Jeffrey Powers, Lainey Moseley, Jan Christopher Goeschel, Greg Ambrose, and John (Beaver Farm student)

Board President Warren Gleicher and Camphill Special School Foundress Ursel Pietzner

Future location of the education and resource center

Future site of student residence

We are installing sprinkler systems in the Residence and Education and Resource Center. The system requires large amounts of water storage: here the pit for the holding tanks is under excavation.

The two 20,000 gallon storage tanks are installed

Thirty seven 250’ deep wells will heat and cool buildings using latent energy from the earth below

Two miles of well piping

Rain water from our roads and parking lots will flow through storm sewers into beautiful ecosystems called rain gardens. These begin as retention ponds  that hold silt and water from the construction site.

The ponds are beautiful…even though they are not proper rain gardens yet. Frogs have moved in already, and the herons come here to eat them for breakfast and supper.

We will gather rain water from the roofs of our buildings and use it to flush toilets, do the laundry, water our livestock and irrigate our fields and gardens. This shows the excavation of the large 44,000 gallon rain harvesting cistern. We will also have a 22,000 gallon and a 12,000 gallon cistern on site.

The completed cistern sits in the background