Inciting Earthly Embeddedness at a Summer Camp on an Urban Jewish Farm

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Abstract: Urban Adamah is a two-acre Jewish community center and urban farm in Berkeley, CA. It’s a 13-year-old nonprofit that hosts programs and events that range from Shabbat programming for families and young children to a residential farming fellowship for adults in their twenties and thirties. This summer, I supported their youth summer camp for kids ages of 3 to 12 with a team of college students who served as “camp specialists.” Our role was to serve as a conduit between the farm staff, the camp staff, and counselors. We taught campers farming skills like planting, harvesting, flipping beds, and composting while also increasingly co-creating activities and curricula that would speak to curiosities and excitement we had about connecting to place and the land in ways more embodied, interdependent, reciprocal, and spiritual. We quickly found that the campers naturally related to the plants and animals of the farm with the most curiosity, care, wonder, and closeness when done through a lens of animism–seeing the world around them as living and sentient.

Author	Friedman, Joey

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Preferred citation: Friedman, J. (2023). Inciting Earthly Embeddedness at a Summer Camp on an Urban Jewish Farm. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/jp860xd4445. https://doi.org/10.25740/jp860xd4445.

Stanford University, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Community-Engaged Summer Fellowship

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