[July 1, 2024] …On a personal level, Jews have always taken seriously the connection between what happens in farm fields and what is ethically and spiritually fit…
[March 4, 2024] Our interconnectedness with other species is abundantly clear when you are plucking a fresh berry off the vine with a bee nestling into an adjacent flower or while digging a potato out of loose dirt under the flapping wings of a red-tailed hawk. The imperative to be thoughtful in those relationships through food becomes unavoidable….
[VIDEO] USDA celebrated the contributions of the Jewish community in agriculture & food security for Jewish American Heritage Month…
[VIDEO] …what better place to say the blessing than a vegetable farm called Adamah. In this part of the Seder when we bless the fruits of the earth, we notice our place in the cycles of the world and how to live better within it…
[February 26, 2023] Join us in advocating for a just and climate-friendly 2023 Farm Bill! The Farm Bill is a package of legislation with enormous impacts on all of us and on the planet. Congress is currently drafting…
[July 26, 2022] Join a robust, intersectional movement from a Jewish perspective! There has never been a better time for working together on behalf of our food future…
The Jewish practice of determining what is “fit to eat” (a literal translation of “kosher”) is complex in this age of global food systems. It is not simply upon us…
[January 6, 2021] We are tracking opportunities for the Jewish community to tip the scales toward effective policy. Join our advocacy alert list and we’ll call you to action…
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 | Erev Chanukah Dear All, First: a huge thank you to every single person who has supported us in 2020. A record number of people supported…
Thursday, October 15, 2020 | 27 Tishrei 5781 Dear All, The Jewish holidays are over, and the rest of our lives now proceeds. I’ve been thinking about one particular future…
The history in our little corner of Falls Village mirrors broader patterns across the continent. Indigenous communities going back many generations used slash and burn techniques to create abundant edge habitats for foraging and hunting and……
It is springtime on the farm which means that seedlings are sprouting in the greenhouse, the peepers are singing at dusk in Lake Miriam at Isabella Freedman, and lovers of…
Important food and farm policy work moved forward this winter amid all of the daunting political news. On December 20th the 2018 Farm Bill became law. The law’s passage was…
Our tradition teaches us to open up the corners of our harvest through pe’ah and to attune ourselves to the needs of land for rest and restoration through shmita. We at Hazon are…
December 13, 2018 | 5 Tevet 5779 Isabella Freedman is a place that touches people’s lives individually and strengthens and thickens Jewish institutions……
A few weeks ago we wrote about the hugely important Farm Bill. Well, the 2014 Farm Bill has now expired and our legislators have postponed taking any action until after…
