sun heart farm
Sun Heart Farm is an educational and therapeutic community farm in Stephentown, NY.
Anthony Mecca
Anthony has been farming for 20 years. Anthony is currently a mentor and adult educator, and offers farmer training, education, and programs for the Biodynamic Association (BDA) where he serves as Co-Director of the organization.
Currently, he is teaching and writing on the themes of biodynamic agriculture, developing new faculties of perception, the nature of substance, and an understanding of nutrition based on Rudolf Steiner's Agriculture Course to support soil, plant, animal, and human health. He consults and offers mentorship in biodynamic agriculture for all ages, and is the author of the EduCareDo year-long distance learning subject course Biodynamic Agriculture and Nutrition. He also holds workshops and conferences on the themes of biodynamic agriculture and nutrition at Sun Heart Farm where he works with his partner and child.
Previously, Anthony founded Great Song Farm, the community-supported-agriculture farm he started in 2010 working with biodynamic practices and principles, growing a diversity of vegetables and caring for a small cow herd. He has worked in market gardening, small grains, and perennial crops including berries and tree fruit.
Sarah Mecca
Since 2015, Sarah has worked as a holistic health practitioner, seeing adults, children from birth through adolescence and family groups in her private practice offering health consultations in-person and remotely, anthroposophic and homeopathic remedies, and therapeutic compresses, oil dispersion baths and footbaths. Sarah trained as a classical homeopath and completed additional training and extensive mentorship and supervision in prescribing anthroposophic medicine. Through Developing the Self Developing the World, Sarah hosts adult residential seasonal retreats in support of individual health and renewal as well as offering presentations and workshops on holistic home health care.
Sarah has worked with children of all ages in various contexts and has completed early childhood coursework through The Alkion Center (Waldorf Early Childhood Teaching Certification Expected Summer 2025), The Mulberry Center for Curative Education (current), LifeWays - Nurturing Families Inspiring Childcare and the EduCareDo International Learning Center based on the work of Rudolf Steiner (the founder of Waldorf Education) and is a contributing author to the year-long EduCareDo Course Laying Foundations for Inner Freedom in the Young Child. Sarah has also completed training through NY State Office of Children and Family Services as well as infant, child and adult First Aid and CPR certification through the American Red Cross. Sarah offers early childhood programming and manages community events and activities at Sun Heart Farm where she lives with her partner and child.
Sarah has a background and interest in initiatives working for social health; previously she co-founded Think OutWord, a peer-led training in social threefolding for young people, which ran conferences and intensives for seven years, and has previously taught in middle school, high school, adult education, and community settings. In her twenties she worked for a variety of social change organizations from Teach for America to the Schumacher Center for New Economics to the Hawthorne Valley Center for Social Research. With Gary Lamb, Sarah edited Steinerian Economics, a published resource guide.
