Kroka's Big Plans
By Misha Golfman,
Founding Director

Last June at our annual Community Meeting, teachers, apprentices, alumni and friends gathered together to look into our school’s future. It was a powerful spiritual moment and a vision for Kroka was put forth as follows:

• Kroka as a school that offers Earth Living Summer Camps and School Outreach Programs while developing its High School Program and Community Offerings.
• Kroka as a farm that grows our food and offers biodynamic food to the local community.
• Kroka as a village, where families share and work together, children play without pre-arranged play dates and elderly rest in comfort and dignity.

As we took a practical look into our future, we saw the need to have a home that can support our vision. While we talked about our sweet home here at Trollhaugen Farm we realized that while we love our camp and cherish our connection with the community here and Johanna and Bahman’s Family, we have to look beyond Trollhaugen for our future. One of the catalysts for the idea of moving is the strong desire for Kroka to be located adjacent to a Waldorf school. Therefore, we have developed criteria for our new home and presented it to the Creator.

Some of those criteria are:

• 100 acres or more in close proximity to one of Northern New England’s Waldorf Schools
• Room for a farm, school and community, with room to grow
• A magical place with woods, mountains, streams and springs, close to protected wilderness

I was delegated to do the groundwork. At first, I was sad to think of leaving our friends at Trollhaugen Farm and of all the years of work that went into creating this special place. As time went on I recognized the need for Kroka to grow and my heart has since filled with excitement and determination. We have been meeting with several Waldorf Schools, looking at land, sorting out the questions of community ownership and figuring out financing possibilities.

This is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to us, and Lynne and I are prepared to dedicate ourselves to the task. We anticipate several years of transition. We will keep our community informed about our progress and we will ask you for help when the time comes.

Kroka staff and apprentices from ’06 (back row, left to right): Emily Hazelton, Zack Alexander, Chris Clarke, Evan Brill, Matias Dammer, Jamie and Cyrus Coulter, Michael Dammer and Stefan Hofer. (Front row, left to right): Marcea McKinnis, Thomas Dammer, Misha Golfman, Chris Knapp, Lynne Boudreau and Laurel Iselin.