05/29/2026
Quiet Creek wins The PA Wilds 2026 Conservation Stewardship Champion Award, thanks to all Quiet Creek patrons, students, apprentices, stewards, partners, and board members!
Quiet Creek Herb Farm & School of Country Living have been selected as the recipients of the 2026 PA Wilds Conservation Stewardship Champion Award which honors the best practices and achievements of an organization that demonstrates a commitment to conservation and outstanding resource stewardship of the natural and cultural assets in the PA Wilds. Quiet Creek Herb Farm & School of Country Living has educated thousands of visitors, students, and apprentices for 30 years. With a non-profit mission, Quiet Creek is dedicated to increasing public awareness of conservation, ecological thinking and healthful sustainable living. This mission is fulfilled by hands-on learning and taste buds engaged activities through regenerative farming workshops that encourage students (Pre-K to Grey) via locally-grown, harvested, preserved and ingested medicinal foods. Educational opportunities happen through 30-acres of lush gardens of organic vegetables, herbs and edible flowers, meadows, and wooded nature trails. The farm also features a traditional medicine wheel, worm composting infrastructure, wind/solar/geothermal/biomass energy systems, yurt, earthen oven, straw bale house and benches, and a shop offering students grown and made herbal teas, soaps, salves and mushrooms. Claire and Rusty Orner's passion for educating on the merits of traditional, regenerative farming will continue in New England and the South Pacific through 2028. The Orner Team will move toward their next opportunity to make a difference in the world, they are being celebrated for their 30 years of effort in the field of conservation stewardship, plus they are pleased to pass Quiet Creek’s mission on to Sylvia and Alex DeLong who will steward Quiet Creek in Clearfield County.
