Adamah Educational Library

Curricula, sourcebooks & educational resources

This open source collection includes resources produced by individuals and organizations throughout the JOFEE field. Our Educational Library, like our community, celebrates the diversity of religious observance and thought and we make every effort to accommodate the breadth and diversity of the Jewish community in our programs and curricula. We hope you will take and use what is appropriate for you and invite others to do the same.

While this resource will continue to grow and evolve, it currently includes:

  • Adamah Publications (available online and in print)
  • Holiday Resources
  • Curricula produced by JOFEE Fellows during their Fellowship year (2017-2019)
  • Curricula and resources shared from partner organizations

All materials are available for free download. Most are available for use and adaptation under creative commons license. Please cite authors and organizations on any materials used or adapted from these resources.

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Tu B’Shvat Sustainable Resources

Tu B’Shvat is February 1 – 2, 2026 Adamah is hosting virtual and in-person events around the country. Join us at a Tu B’Shvat event near you! The resources below offer thoughts and ideas to…
Categories: Tu Bishvat
Tags: Holidays, Tu B'Shvat

Tu B’Shvat Haggadah

Adamah’s Haggadot offer texts, questions, and suggestions for viewing Tu B’Shvat through fresh eyes and recontextualizing traditions. The Haggadah is designed to create a similar setting to a Passover seder – creating conversation with friends,…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Jewish Agricultural Traditions, Jewish Food Traditions, Tu Bishvat
Tags: Tu B'Shvat
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Families, Teens, Young Adults

Beyond Horseradish: Exploring Maror

This program helps us explore and expand our relationship to Maror. After learning through a text study that the definition of Maror is different and also more expansive than we might have thought, participants will…
Categories: Crafting + DIY, Jewish Food Traditions, Passover
Tags: Maror, Mishna, passover, text study
Age: Adults, B'nai Mitzvah, Families, Teens, Young Adults

Eco Spa Balm Making

Our tradition teaches that Shmirat HaGuf (care of our bodies) is important so that we can do good work in the world. To love ourselves we need to take care of our mind, body, and…
Categories: Crafting + DIY, Sustainability
Tags: arts & crafts, DIY, Teva
Age: Adults, Elementary, Teens

Microgreens

Microgreens are mini versions of regular vegetables. The shoots are harvested at a young age, before they grow into fully matured plants. They have a wonderful flavor and are richer in nutrition than their larger…
Categories: Food & Climate, Sustainability
Tags: microgreens, Teva, vegetables
Age: Adults, Elementary, Teens

Pickling 101

There are many options to preserve each season’s harvest, including canning, vinegar pickling, drying, blanching and freezing. This particular activity teaches lacto-fermentation pickling – an easy, fun and extremely health-friendly method of food preservation. Participants…
Categories: Food & Climate, Sustainability
Tags: canning, food preservation, Pickling, Teva
Age: Adults, Elementary, Teens

Paper Making

As we learn from our tradition, we have a responsibility to care for the trees we have and to plan trees for the future. Recycled papermaking is a way of making new paper without needing…
Categories: Crafting + DIY, Sustainability
Tags: paper making, recycled paper, Teva
Age: Elementary, Teens

Teva in a Box

Bring participants to the intersection of Judaism and sustainability for a small taste of Teva’s experiential education curriculum. Click on any of the below to view and download PDF instructions for these activities Eco Spa…
Categories: Crafting + DIY, Group-building, Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Sustainability
Tags: arts & crafts, DIY, farm and garden, Teva

Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition

The Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition is a network of non-profit Jewish community organizations who recognize the urgency of climate change and commit to take action. To learn more about your organization joining the Coalition, you…

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

Eating Animals

How much do you know about the food that’s on your plate? Based on the bestselling book by Jonathan Safran Foer, the film Eating Animals is an urgent, eye-opening look at the environmental, economic, and…
Categories: Adamah Publications, Animals, Food & Climate, Food Systems & Food Justice,
Tags: Adult learning, animals, farm and garden, food justice
Age: Adults, Teens, Young Adults

Tu B’Shvat on Campus

Compiled by Adamah on Campus student leaders Consider the time your group has and pick an activity from any or all these categories to build out a customized program that will meet the moment on…
Categories: Tu Bishvat
Tags: Holidays, Tu B'Shvat

Sukkot Sustainable Resources

What is Sukkot? The Jewish holiday of Sukkot celebrates the Fall Harvest. We are told to sleep, eat, and relax outdoors in our sukkah. Sukkot also celebrates the time when farmers have completed their harvest…
Categories: Sukkot
Tags: Holidays

Seeds of Opportunity

A National Study of Immersive Jewish Outdoor, Food, and Environmental Education (JOFEE) Released in 2014 by the Jim Joseph Foundation, Leichtag Foundation, The Morningstar Foundation, Rose Community Foundation, Schusterman Family Foundation, UJA-Federation of New York,…
Categories: Nature Exploration and Outdoor Wilderness, Sustainability
Tags: community