Scholars to Workers Program
“A sharing, with each other, in love and work, thought and worship; all this will be part of the life here on our beginnings of an agronomic university.”
Scholars must become workers, so workers can become scholars.
Peter Maurin Garden
Peter Maurin co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement with Dorothy Day in 1933. In addition to establishing a house of hospitality in New York City to share the works of mercy with those in need, Peter imagined an “agronomic university” in rural settings where farm and trade programs could be learned in community with others. The Peter Maurin Garden at Fisher’s Nook aims to participate in this effort through restoration farming practices, sharing everything grown with local food pantries and soup kitchens, and providing opportunities for people to put their hands in the soil with purposeful, life-giving work on the land.