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Blessing Our Food Waste

Through the practice of a food waste ritual, we can find deep lessons in how we gather, cook, and scrap food. We visually express those lessons into a “visual blessing” using actual food scraps and…
Categories: Jewish Food Traditions, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Sustainability
Tags: waste
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Families, Teens, Young Adults, Youth

Decomposition

Categories: Food Systems & Food Justice, Sustainability
Tags: Teva, waste
Age: Elementary, Teens

Judaism and Food Waste Source Sheet

This source sheet is a dive into Jewish tradition’s commentary on prohibitions against wanton waste, environmental stewardship, responsibility for community members in need, and responses to hunger and surplus. We hope that it serves to…
Categories: Food Systems & Food Justice, , Sustainability
Tags: waste
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, High School, Middle School, Teens

WORMS!

Categories: Animals, Food Systems & Food Justice, Jewish Agricultural Traditions
Tags: compassion, Compost, fertilizer, food systems, scraps, soil, waste, worms
Age: Middle School

Soil Safari – Exploring the Subterra Universe

Categories: Food Systems & Food Justice, Hebrew Calendar & Jewish Ritual, Jewish Agricultural Traditions
Tags: Food, garden, jewish agriculture, organic farming, soil, waste
Age: Young Adults

Min Ha’Aretz: Making Meaning from Our Food

[button color=”red” link=”https://store.adamah.org/product/min-ha-aretz-making-meaning-from-our-food-journal” window=yes]Purchase Min Ha’aretz Student Journal [/button] [button color=”red” link=”https://store.adamah.org/product/min-ha-aretz-making-meaning-from-our-food-lesson-plan-manual” window=yes]Purchase Min Ha’aretz Lesson Plan Manual [/button] This curriculum allows students from grades 5-9 to explore the question, what is the relationship between Jewish…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Food Systems & Food Justice, Jewish Food Traditions
Tags: classroom, farm and garden, food justice, Holidays, ritual, waste
Age: Elementary

Fit to Eat

Purchase a hard copy of Fit to Eat Download a digital copy of Fit to Eat Without sustenance, there is no Torah. Without Torah, there is no sustenance. Pirke Avot 3:21 The link between food and faith obligates us as Jews to challenge the injustice of hunger, champion…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Food Systems & Food Justice
Tags: community, food justice, food policy, institutions, waste
Age: Adults

Green Kiddush Guide

[button color=”red” link=”https://hazonform.wufoo.com/forms/educational-materials-free-download/” window=”yes”] Download the Green Kiddush Guide[/button] [button color=”red” link=”http://store.adamah.org” window=”yes”]Purchase the Green Kiddush Guide[/button] From the Torah’s dietary laws to the modern Jewish synagogue dining culture, food and Jewish values have gone…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Food Systems & Food Justice, Shabbat and Holidays, Sustainability
Tags: Compost, Shabbat, waste
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah

Worms: An Exploration of Earthworms

Categories: Animals, Food & Climate, Sustainability
Tags: cycles, decomposition, Earth Day, renewal, waste, worms
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Families, Teens, Young Adults

Ba’al Taaschit Heros

Categories: Food & Climate, Group-building, Sustainability
Tags: animals, Compost, farming, waste
Age: Elementary

Wild and Wonderful Worms

Categories: Animals, Food & Climate
Tags: blessings, community, Compost, ecosystems, K'lal Yisrael, soil, waste, worms
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Early Childhood, Elementary, Families, Teens, Young Adults

Holy Compost! Sacred cycles of rest and work

Categories: Food & Climate, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Sustainability
Tags: Compost, Havdallah, Shabbat, soil, vermicompost, waste, worms
Age: Adults, Teens, Young Adults

Topsy Turvy Bus

Categories: Environmental Justice, Food & Climate, Sustainability
Tags: climate change, energy, Outreach, sustainable, waste, water
Age: Elementary