Who we are

We’re Ms. Frances and Ms. Elizabeth, two Waldorf teachers with a deep love for the land, the seasons, and the rhythms of childhood—and we’re so excited to open the gates to our new learning program!

🌾 Hedgerow Hill Handwork and Farm school

A Waldorf Seasonal Farm & Handwork Program for Homeschoolers

Nestled in the rhythms of the Earth, Hedgerow Hill is a supplemental Waldorf program for homeschool children, created and lovingly guided by two trained Waldorf teachers. With a strong foundation in seasonal living, purposeful work, and imaginative storytelling, our program supports the whole child—head, heart, and hands—through deep connection to the land and traditional handcrafts.

At Hedgerow Hill, children are invited to slow down, to root deeply in nature, and to grow into healthy, capable, and joyful human beings.

🌿 What We Offer

Each day at Hedgerow Hill flows with a warm, nourishing rhythm that brings children into harmony with nature and themselves.

🧶 Handwork Arts

Through the living tradition of handwork—knitting, crocheting, weaving, and spinning wool—children engage in soulful, tactile work that develops patience, perseverance, and inner quiet. These activities also support fine motor skills, coordination, and artistic creativity.

🐓 Farming & Gardening

In our daily farm work, children care for animals and gardens—feeding, tending, planting, harvesting, and exploring the ever-changing seasons of the land. This meaningful, hands-on work fosters reverence, responsibility, and a sense of place on our beautiful earth.

🌞 Our Daily Rhythm

  • Morning Circle – Movement, songs, and verses to ground us in the day and the season

  • Farming & Gardening – A full hour of active work with plants and animals

  • Shared Meals – food enjoyed with community, with gratitude

  • Handwork – Focused, meditative craftwork using natural materials

  • Seasonal Exploration & Free Time – Imaginative play and discovery on the land

  • Each activity is developmentally aligned and designed to support the growing child with beauty, rhythm, and meaning.

✨ Rooted in Waldorf Education

At Hedgerow Hill, the values of Waldorf education are at the heart of everything we do:

  • Seasonal Living & Festival Life – Honoring the year’s turning with story, song, and celebration

  • Imaginative Storytelling – Daily tales to awaken wonder, empathy, and inner strength

  • Free Play & Inner Freedom – Time to explore, create, and connect with the natural world

  • Holistic Development – Supporting the physical, emotional, and spiritual growth of each child

  • Natural Materials & Environments – Working with wool, wood, earth, and water in a true farm setting

  • Warm, Consistent Rhythm – A dependable flow to each day that builds trust and security

🌼 For Homeschooling Families

Hedgerow Hill is designed for homeschooling families seeking a once weekly program grounded in the Waldorf tradition—one that offers deep connection to land, craft, and community.

We welcome children who thrive in outdoor environments, who find joy in hands-on work, and who benefit from the slow, thoughtful pace of a nature-based, heart-led day. 

Let your child grow with the seasons, root into the Earth, awaken all the way to their fingertips, and rise into themselves—here at Hedgerow Hill.

We welcome homeschooling children ages 6–11 to join us on Mondays or Fridays, 9am–1pm, for a gentle, nourishing experience of handwork, farming, and seasonal celebration.

If this calls to your family, we’d love to hear from you! 

About Our Teachers

Elizabeth Bourland was born in Sevier County and spent her childhood across Utah and Sanpete counties. She earned her Waldorf teacher certification from the Center for Educational Renewal and has spent the past 12 years working in a variety of roles within Waldorf education—spanning private and charter schools in both California and Utah. Her experience includes classroom instruction, special education, games and movement instruction, school administration, and work on several biodynamic Waldorf farms. She is currently deepening her path by pursuing a certification in Biodynamic Farming.
Elizabeth is the proud mother of three wonderful children and shares life with an incredible partner who also has three amazing children. Surrounded by kindred spirits who are bringing beauty and purpose into the world, she feels deeply grateful every day. Elizabeth is overjoyed to be co-creating a new program with one of her dearest friends, on a piece of land she holds as truly sacred.

Frances Callis is the handwork side of the school. She was born in Provo and grew up in Argentina, Northern California, and Illinois. Ms. Frances has spent the last four years teaching handwork to grades 1–8 at a Waldorf school. A graduate of BYU with a BFA in Studio Arts, she’s also completed multiple summer intensives and trainings in Waldorf teaching and handwork. Deeply inspired by Fibershed’s “soil to sweater” movement, she’s on a mission to relocalize fashion—she used to host weekly public fibershed gatherings —and those gatherings will resume—sharing her love for homegrown, sustainable fiber arts.

Life on Hedgerow Hill is never dull: she tends sheep, cashmere goats, angora goats, and angora rabbits, shearing, washing, carding, and dyeing their fiber using plants from her own dye garden or local foraging adventures. She happily milks goats, nurtures a growing food forest, and spins yarn while walking with a drop spindle—or by carting her trusty spinning wheel wherever she goes. Knitting, crocheting, and weaving are daily activities, while storytelling, seasonal observations, biking everywhere, and river swims keep her spirit thriving.

At home, she shares adventures with her husband Oliver—former Waldorf specialty teacher, musician, and builder—and their teenager. Together, they weave a life full of creativity, community, and the simple joys of making things from scratch.

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