Jewish Farmer Network

08/28/2026

https://forward.com/news/847058/jewish-farmers-planted-ancient-seed/

We are so honored to have the story of our seed project highlighted by The Forward! Grateful to the Hudson Valley Farm Hub, Noah Weinberg, Experimental Farm Network, Lehrhaus, our growers, and the seeds!

After six years of cultivation and research, an ancient melon cited in the Torah and Talmud is sprouting in diaspora gardens across the U.S.

08/20/2026

We’re so excited to introduce Noaam of Mud Nap Farm

Mud Nap Farm is a quarter acre vegetable farm in Austin, TX who mostly shares their veggies with their CSA members. They specialize in growing a diverse bunch of vegetables to share with their community. Using organic and regenerative practices their food is nutrient dense and grown with love.

“It is so fulfilling to have a job where I can see the direct impact of my work in my community. Sharing food that ends up on family tables for holiday meals or nourishes a friend throughout the week is a true gift. There is nothing like the childlike wonder that is brought out by watching a seed transform into food!”



08/14/2026

It’s the first day of Elul✨a time to slow down, reflect on the year that was, and consider how we want to move forward.

According to Mishnah Rosh HaShanah 1:1, the new moon of Elul is also the new year for the animals. 🐄🐝🪱

As farmers, we are privileged to have a front row seat to the ways that creatures of all kinds shape our food system and our world. Some hold the tradition to blow the shofar every day during the month of Elul to help prepare us for the High Holidays.

The horn of an animal is our instrument for awakening—a reminder to listen closely, return to what matters, and begin again.
 
As Elul begins, may the land offer you space to reflect. May the creatures around you remind you of your place within a larger web of life. And may this season of teshuvah help you return, with intention and tenderness, to the work that is yours to do.
 
Chodesh Tov from Jewish Farmer Network. 🌱

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08/14/2026

🐔 **History you can taste!**

Join us at Alliance Community Reboot for a fun afternoon exploring South Jersey’s rich Jewish poultry-farming heritage—and taste it too!

Learn the story of the farmers who helped shape the region, discover heritage breeds, and enjoy a guided tasting of **Chosen Farms’ heritage chicken and turkey.** 🦃

📅 Registration required
🎟️ Free | $10 suggested donation

Come for the history. Stay for the chicken. 😉

08/13/2026

New episode of Jews in the Field featuring Gabe of Abes Acres Farm 🎙️🌱

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1rNUpGtCth0k2BhtTSLSkF?si=6666259c369c4798

In this episode, Shani sits down with farmer Gabe Siciliano, whose family has been farming the same New Jersey property for nearly a century. Gabe shares the remarkable story of his great-grandfather Abraham, who immigrated to the U.S. from Ukraine in the early 1900s with a dream of becoming a farmer—a dream he had been unable to pursue as a Jew in Ukraine.

It’s a story about immigration, family, Jewish identity, and the generations of farming that followed.

🌙 New episodes every new moon!
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. Link in bio.

08/04/2026

🌱 Our podcast is here! 🎙️

Jews in the Field celebrates the diverse stories of modern Jewish farmers, exploring how Jewish identity and farming shape one another in unexpected ways. Through honest conversations with farmers across our network, we dig into the joys, challenges, and lived experiences of cultivating both land and Jewish life.

The first three episodes are live now, with new episodes dropping every month. We can’t wait for you to listen, share, and join us on this journey.

🎧 Listen here:

https://jewsinthefield.fireside.fm/ or on apple podcasts!

07/29/2026

It’s Tu B’Av! Love abounds!

Lovers dance through vineyards under the full moon in search of their beloved. We are people of the vine 🍇

‎הִנֵּה יָמִים בָּאִים נְאֻם־ה’ וְנִגַּשׁ חוֹרֵשׁ בַּקֹּצֵר וְדֹרֵךְ עֲנָבִים בְּמֹשֵׁךְ הַזָּרַע וְהִטִּיפוּ הֶהָרִים עָסִיס וְכׇל־הַגְּבָעוֹת תִּתְמוֹגַגְנָה׃

‎אמוס ט:יג

“Days are coming, declares Hashem, when the plower shall meet the reaper, and the treader of grapes shall meet the one who holds the [bag of] seed; the mountains shall drip wine, and all the hills shall wave [with grain].”

Amos 9:13

06/30/2026

Calling all CT Jewish Farmers!!

Join us at for a Farmer-to-Table Shabbat Dinner—hosted by Jewish farmers, for Jewish farmers!

Shabbat might just be the original farmer life hack: stop producing, stop planning, gather people you like, eat something delicious, and remember there’s more to life than crossing things off the list.

We’ll share a meal, try a few rituals (some traditional, some lovingly made up), and enjoy a summer evening together.

🗓 Friday, August 7
📍 Four Root Farm | East Haddam, CT
🚜 Arrive by 6:00 PM for an optional farm tour
🍽 Dinner at 6:30 PM

Open to Jewish farmers + friends + family. No Shabbat experience required.

About your hosts:

Located on 16 quiet acres in East Haddam, Connecticut, Four Root Farm is a small and diverse Certified Organic vegetable and cut flower farm. We are committed to growing nutritious, delicious, and highly unusual produce. The farm is owned equally by its four farmers: partners and best friends who share a common vision for a business model that sustains our community, our land, our selves, our soil, and our food system.

As you know if you’ve spent five minutes with us, the Four Root farmers love each other as family and genuinely get real joy from working together as intimately as farming requires. We have a productive and healthy diversity of skills; We are farmers, architects, musicians, athletes, historians, dog people, cat people, miniature Scottish Highland people, enthusiastic cilantro eaters, and enthusiastic anti-cilantro eaters. We all love soup, we have an expansive definition of family, and we’re eternally grateful to be building this life together.

Tag your favorite Connecticut Jewish farmer

Link in bio to register!

06/25/2026

Here comes the season of the fig!

Te’enah תאנה

“Rami bar Ezekiel once visited Bnei Brak and he saw some goats grazing under fig trees. Honey oozed down from the figs, and milk dripped from the goats, and mingled with each other. He said, this is the “flow of milk and honey”

‎רָמֵי בַּר יְחֶזְקֵאל אִיקְּלַע לִבְנֵי בְרַק, חֲזַנְהוּ לְהָנְהוּ עִיזֵּי דְּקָאָכְלָן תּוּתֵי תְּאֵינֵי וְקָנָטֵיף דּוּבְשָׁא מִתְּאֵינֵי וַחֲלָבָא טָיֵיף מִנַּיְיהוּ וּמִיעָרַב בַּהֲדֵי הֲדָדֵי. אֲמַר: הַיְינוּ: ״זָבַת חָלָב וּדְבָשׁ״.

Ketubot 111b. כתובות קיא:ב

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06/18/2026

Calling all Colorado Jewish Farmers!

Join the farmers at Milk & Honey Farm for a soulful and accessible Shabbat dinner ✨
 
Come connect with fellow Jewish farmers, slow down and dive into rituals—some traditional, some lovingly made up. No experience necessary. This dinner is open to Jewish farmers, their friends and family. Register directly with Milk & Honey Farm!

Link in bio to register

About your host:

We’re grateful to be hosted by Becca Gan Levy, Farm and Sustainability Director at the Boulder JCC and steward of Milk & Honey Farm, an educational sustainable farm rooted in Jewish values and community connection.