Category: Food Systems & Food Justice

yesThe Hazon Shmita Sourcebook presents a guided exploration of the history, concepts, and practices of Shmita, from debt forgiveness to agricultural rest, economic adjustment to...

yesThrough the practice of a food waste ritual, we can find deep lessons in how we gather, cook, and scrap food. We visually express those...

yesThe connection between industrial animal agriculture and climate change is significant. But why and how is that so? This two-page source sheet presents a string of...

yesThis program is an introduction to collective responsibility as humans to each other and the Earth in the context of games....

yesBreaking Bread Together was a community event of cross-cultural engagement over local, regeneratively grown, heritage grains....

yesThis program seeks to engage the Detroit and metro Detroit Jewish community in an intentional, educational, local, and sustainable food buying practice with clear roots...

yesHow can we use concepts of environmentalism to augment and evolve our understanding of what constitutes kosher food? What if we draw on the concept...

yesThis program will introduce participants to the Jewish brachot over food and educate them about the food supply chain....

yesThis Urban Adamah CIT leadership retreat is meant to connect CITs for summer camp to the farm, build and foster community, strengthen their connection to...

yesThis is a collection of shmita resources from all across the internet that Hazon has brought together in one place. Curricula, educational materials, essays, articles,...

yesThe Shmita Sourcebook is designed to encourage participants to think critically about the Shmita Cycle – its values, challenges, and opportunities – and how this tradition...

yesBased on the bestselling book by Jonathan Safran Foer, the film Eating Animals is an urgent, eye-opening look at the environmental, economic, and public health...

yesThis guide provides a framework for Jewish institutions to learn more about our food system and Jewish traditions surrounding food justice; to identify challenges specific...

yesThis program presents students with the opportunity to delve deeply into the hidden messages of verse 50b of the Bava Kama (the stones text). Through...

yesThrough a small discussion and watching a Curious George video, the children will learn about how everyone produces trash and ways to keep said trash...

yesIn this program participants have the opportunity to think beyond their own garden and analyze two food systems at play in the world–local and global.Once...