David Kennedy from Waldorf Today was kind enough to review Nina Taylor’s Making Waldorf Crafts. Some of our favourite quotes are: ‘Making Waldorf Crafts isn’t your normal “I’m going to knit a gnome book”. You can…
Travels and Tales at Warming Waters There are shadows on the warming, northern seas. Long ago, refugees fled Doggerland when seas encroached. Now rising seas threaten the low-lying shores once again. Jules Pretty tells moving…
A piece in The Guardian by Joanna Partridge about Huxhams Cross Farm, including an interview with Marina O’Connell.
Marina O’Connell, of the Apricot Centre, hosted a Celebration of Regenerative Agriculture on Tuesday 10th May at the New Lion Brewery at Dartington, Devon with beer on the house. She wanted to celebrate not just her new book,…
We have released the catalogue of our 2022 publications! Give it a read to find out more about our new books under the wide ranging themes of Farming, Craft, Family, Steiner and Waldorf Education, and…
This week we launched the social media for Hawthorn Press’s new imprint Quickthorn books in preparation for some upcoming publications! Quickthorn publishes books with an emphasis on making and personal agency. We are constantly being…
Swedish company Polhus has created a playhouse based on the Findus and Pettson characters. The Pettson playhouse has two decorative chimneys and at the ridge, the internal ceiling height is about 1.9m, so even big…
We have launched a new logo that we will stamp onto the front of our books to illustrate the effort Hawthorn Press puts into caring for our world through our thoughtful books. Earth caring, to…
At the beginning of this February we hosted via Zoom the launch of our new Storytelling for Nature Connection: Environment, Community and Story-based Learning. The editors Alida Gersie, Anthony Nanson, Edward Schieffelin with Charlene Collison…
Earlier this month at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 Marina O’Connell, Martin Large, Colin Tudge, Hannah Thorogood and Julia Wright met virtually through zoom to launch Marina O’Connell’s new book Designing Regenerative Food Systems.
The last month of the year it is a time of reflection. This is Hawthorn Press’ 40th year and those 40 years have gone by quickly. It seems only yesterday in 1981 that Hawthorn’s founding…
Samhain, from the Gaelic word meaning ‘summer’s end’, is halfway between the autumn equinox and the winter solstice. In Britain, the clocks go back and the evenings are dark. It is the turning point when…
Thanks to Outside in World for a lovely review of the new board book for younger readers, Can Findus Find Pettson? by Sven Nordqvist
This autumn Hawthorn Press will publish some exciting new books, including Making Waldorf Crafts and World Tales for Family Storytelling
Autumn is harvest time. The autumn equinox is a point of perfect balance in the year, when the length of the day is exactly equal to the length of the night. It is a turning…
This autumn we publish Making Waldorf Crafts by Nina Taylor – a recipe book to guide young people through making things on their own (with a little help or guidance from an adult, if needed).
In this extract from Small Steps to Less Waste: stories to inspire change, Carly Catalano discusses the many benefits of switching to reusable nappies.
We are delighted to have been Shortlisted for the 2021 Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) Sustainability Award.
