Lael and Johannes Stimming

Johannes and Lael moved to Wilton, New Hampshire in the fall of 2022 with their two younger daughters. After more than two decades together in California it was time for a change. Both Johannes and Lael thought this change had to do with their children attending High Mowing School. However, it quickly became apparent that destiny was calling and there were more reasons for the Stimming family to be in Wilton. Johannes and Alice Groh had a connection that dated back to 1991, when Ingo, Johannes’s brother, was Alice and Trauger’s first farm apprentice. Johannes did his high school exchange in the area just a few miles from the Groh Farm. In 1997 Johannes presented, as a leader of the Anthroposophic youth section, at a conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan to members of the first class about the work the youth section was doing. Alice Groh was a part of that group and after the presentation Alice and Johannes had a conversation where Alice said “someday you and I are going to work together.” Thirty years later that work is coming into being. Alice and Johannes meet weekly to discuss the work happening at Groh Farm. Johannes is busy planting the fields, assessing the growth of the hay and monitoring the weather. Lael has been in Wilton full time for almost a year after closing her busy midwifery practice in California in the summer of 2023. Lael is working with Alice around Anthroposophic education and co-creating opportunities for more people to learn about spiritual science. Lael is putting together summer and after school actives for children to experience eurythmy, water color painting, farm work and other artistic activities.

When Lael is not helping on the farm she can be found shuttling her two high schoolers around and reveling in the joys of motherhood and new grand-motherhood. She can also be found working with mothers and mothers to be in the capacity of midwife and health consultant. Lael is starting an Anthroposophic Midwifery training where she is working to create curriculum and a program to incorporate anthroposophy into the work that midwives do, bridging the physical world and the spiritual world.

Johannes and Lael are delighted to be here and look forward to the continued work with Groh Farm.