Jewish Farmer Network

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!

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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.

06/01/2026

We are so excited to offer a new membership perk from our friends at Ahavah Farm, LLC!

20% off broad forks made by their son Asher if you're a member of our network!

Learn more about Asher's master blacksmithing below and become a MEMBER to access 20% off!

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05/20/2026

Tomorrow night we celebrate the festival of Shavuot. On this holiday, we honor the first fruits of the season, celebrate receiving the Torah at Mt. Sinai and complete the Omer counting journey, through fields of grain, from Barley to Wheat.

Wheat is arguably the most important seed for Jewish people, as we are a people of bread. In fact, this whole season, is a choreographed psycho-spiritual journey to bring us from the simplicity of a whole grain used primarily for animal fodder (barley) to the more refined grain capable of transformation into something so holy as bread. Wheat gives us the bread that graced the elaborate table in the inner most sanctuary of the Holy Temple and the bread that graces our Shabbat tables every week.

Wheat חיטה Chittah

‎כָּל מַה שֶּׁנִּבְרָא בְּשֵׁשֶׁת יְמֵי בְרֵאשִׁית צְרִיכִין עֲשִׂיָה, כְּגוֹן הַחַרְדָּל צָרִיךְ לְמִתּוּק. הַתּוּרְמוּסִים צָרִיךְ לְמִתּוּק. הַחִטִּין צְרִיכִין לְהִטָּחֵן. אֲפִלּוּ אָדָם צָרִיךְ תִּקּוּן.

‎בראשית רבה יא:ו

Every­ thing that was created during the six days of creation needs finishing: mustard needs sweetening, lupine needs sweeten­ing, wheat needs grinding, and even man needs fixing.

Beresh*t Rabbah 11:6

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05/14/2026

Our newest resource booklet is here! Shomrei Qishu’im: Reconnecting with Ancestral Seeds is a product of five years of loving question asking from our beloved Jewish Seed Project.

This booklet offers a deep dive into the mysterious qishu’im, an ancient crop once beloved by our ancestors and nearly lost to history.

Link in bio to order! available in print or digital download. Free shipping for JFN members!

Through Talmudic texts, seed stories, ethnobotany, diaspora memory, and the lived experiences of modern Jewish growers, this booklet explores what it might mean to reconnect with “Jewish seeds” in the present day. 

Part history, part storytelling, part growing guide, Shomrei Qishu’im traces a 3,500-year relationship between Jews and a humble fuzzy melon while inviting readers into a larger conversation about exile, continuity, agriculture, and belonging.

Whether you are a farmer, seedkeeper, Jewish history nerd, or simply curious about the plants that shaped our people, we’re so excited to share this project with you. 

04/15/2026

The Omer begins with barley 🌾

In the Jewish agricultural calendar, barley is the first grain to ripen in the spring—humble, resilient, and ready before the rest. It marks the beginning of the Omer, the 49-day journey from Pesach to Shavuot, from the barley harvest to the wheat harvest.

This is a season of counting, of paying attention, of moving slowly from what is ready now toward what is still becoming.

“Now the flax and barley were stricken [with hail], for the barley was aviv [ripe] and the flax was in bud; but the wheat and the emmer were not hurt, for they ripen late.”

וְהַפִּשְׁתָּה וְהַשְּׂעֹרָה נֻכָּתָה כִּי הַשְּׂעֹרָה אָבִיב וְהַפִּשְׁתָּה גִּבְעֹל׃ וְהַחִטָּה וְהַכֻּסֶּמֶת לֹא נֻכּוּ כִּי אֲפִילֹת הֵנָּה׃

Exodus 9: 30-31 | שְׁמוֹת ט:ל׳–ל״א

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03/31/2026

On Thursday night we start the 49 days of the Omer— the stretch between Passover and Shavuot, between barley and wheat harvest, physical liberation and self knowledge. A season rooted in agriculture. In anticipation. In daily attention.

For us, it’s also when we turn toward what it takes to sustain this work.

Over these 49 days, we’re raising support for our biennial national conference—the most important gathering we hold.

For many Jewish farmers, this is the most meaningful touchstone in their Jewish lives.

As one participant shared:�“The experience of being surrounded by other Jewish farmers was more meaningful and powerful than I could have expected; these two identities are core to who I am but have always felt very separate.”

The true cost to attend is over $900.�And still, we offer a radical sliding scale—because our working farmers should not be priced out of this community.

Last time, nearly half of participants chose the lowest rate.

Making this gathering both abundant and accessible is no small feat. We can’t do it alone.
As we count the Omer, we’re counting on our community.

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CAN WE COUNT ON YOU?