Past Projects
Tending Beauty, Healing, & Culture
Adamah Farming Fellowship
I worked as farm manager, mentor and teacher for 2 years for this rural organic farming internship set in the Berkshires of New England. The 3-month fellowship wove spiritual practice, earth-based Judaism, leadership development, as well as tending to the program's organic farm, dairy, and pickling business.
Tel Sheva Desert Medicine Learning Site
As Project Coordinator for the organization BUSTAN, I worked with our Bedouin partners - Mariam Abu Rkeek and her family - to transform their family's land in the Negev Desert into a site of learning and sharing traditional ecological knowledge. Welcoming volunteers from all over the world, we designed and planted a garden that featured local Negev desert plants that the Bedouin have been in relationship with as sources as food and medicine for countless years. The site also focussed on traditional Bedouin earth-building techniques that have been used throughout history. The goal of the site was to keep critical traditional knowledge alive which can provide an alternative model for how people can live sustainably within the desert ecology. It underscored the importance of Bedouin communities amidst the Negev desert and advocated for their rights to home and safety in a region they have long called Home.
Urban Adamah
I co-founded this community farm in its inaugural year. As Associate Director and Farm Manager of this urban food bank farm in Berkeley CA, I oversaw the design and creation of this incredible hub for community. I also oversaw the program's residential fellowship program and helped develop programming that merged spiritual practice, urban food security internships, intentional community living, Jewish earth based studies and permaculture. Hundreds of people came out to build, plant, teach, graft, dig, save seeds, and build compost - all with the intention of making fresh organic food available to underserved communities. While the original site of the farm no longer exists, today the project has secured a permanent site has become a major hub for urban farming and community gathering.
Resiliency Rising Permaculture Educational Network
I am a student of the earth. I believe that spending time outdoors, touching the soil, and learning from the plants puts us in contact with the greatest source of health and vitality that is available to us. One of the most empowering things we get to experience as humans is partnering with the elements to grow food and save seeds and build soil. The more time we spend in the garden, the more we understand that the entire natural world is designed with abundance as its mode of being. While many of us initially turned to permaculture to learn tools with which to respond to our precarious global food system, we stay for the sense of aliveness and wonder and thriving it brings to our lives.
Wilderness Torah
As Director of Community Programs, I produced multiple earth-based Jewish events and festivals in the Bay area. Working alongside a powerful team of visionaries, ceremonialists, artists, and architects of culture, we brought to life inter-generational village experiences that honoured and re-conjured earth-based rituals and practices. It was a truly magical experience in reimaging what is possible at the intersection of lineage healing, ancient ancestral tradition, diverse village building, art, music, and community ritual.
