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Welcome to the Jewish Farmer Network Resource Library — an exclusive members-only collection of stories, teachings, and tools rooted in Jewish agricultural tradition.
Here you’ll find ancient texts alongside modern voices, ethical frameworks, and lived experiences that illuminate the deep and evolving relationship between Judaism and the land.
Whether you're seeking historical insight, spiritual grounding, or practical wisdom, this library is here to nourish your journey. Our curated resources include book recommendations, articles, podcasts, videos, and more — all here to nourish your journey.
JEWISH FARMER NETWORK
RESOURCE LIBRARY
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Return and Repair: The Rise of Jewish Agrarian Movements in North America by Zachary A. Goldberg, Margaret Weinberg Norman, Rebecca Croog, Anika M. Rice, Hannah Kass, and Michael Bell (2024)
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Farming is Jewish with Shani Mink and SJ Seldin from Judaism Unbound (March 2021) [podcast]
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Ba’Sadeh Podcast with Shani Mink (July 2022) [podcast]
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Jewish Farms are booming. Now the farmers want to grow their community by Ben Harris (2020)
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‘Harvesting a participatory movement’: Initial participatory action research with the Jewish Farmer Network by Anika Rice and Zachary Goldberg (2021)
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Jewish Farmer Network Reconnects with Judaism’s Agricultural History by Dan Sullivan
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Finding Our Way Back to the Land by Marigo Farr
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Shani Mink works to create pathways for Jewish farmers to connect to themselves and each other
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Primary sources from the Torah on Jewish Herbalism
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Jewish Ancestral Plant Magic w/ Dori Midnight from Jewish Ancestral Healing
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A Frog Under the Tongue: Jewish Folk Medicine in Eastern Europe by Marek Tuszewicki (2021) [book]
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Ashkenazi Herbalism: Rediscovering the Herbal Traditions of Eastern European Jews (2021) by Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel [book]
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The Jewish Book of Flowers by Naomi Spector
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Rabbi and the Herbalist Blog by Ben Levine
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Ashkenazi Herbal Medicine and Ashkenazi Plant Wisdom: Rediscovering the Healing Traditions of Our Ancestors with Deatra Cohen and Adam Siegel [JFN Virtual Class]
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Jewish Herbalism for Farmers with Naomi Spector
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Jewish Flower Teachings with Naomi Spector [JFN Virtual Class]
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Jewish Herbalism with Chelsea Taxman [JFN Virtual Class]
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Primary sources from the Torah on Shmitah
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The Shmita Source Book by Yigal Deutscher, Anna Hanau, and Nigel Savage (2021) [Book]
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An Introduction to Sabbath Agriculture by Jorian Polis Schutz & Yigal Deutscher [book]
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“Why we are letting our homestead rest for a year” from The Schoolhouse Life (October 2021)
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Judaism Unbound’s Shmita Series [podcast]
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Nobody Owns the Land with Rabbi David Seidenberg
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Shmita Hives with Asher Edes and Kizmet Alexander
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Every 7th Rosh Hashanah with Nigel Savage
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The Shmita Project with Hannah Henza and Sarah Young
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Reflections on Shmita from Israel Today [JFN Virtual Class]
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When the Land Took It’s Rest: An Introduction to Shmita with Nati Pasow [JFN Virtual Class]
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Yovel: A Return To Ancestral Land Holdings with Risa Alyson Cooper & SJ Seldin
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Fermenting Change: Shmita as Inspiration for Food Distribution & Intentional Pickling with Sarah Chandler [JFN Virtual Class]
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Release & Repair: Shmita & Reparations in Our Lives with Chanah Rusanov and Sol Yael Weiss [JFN Virtual Class]
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If Shmitah is the Answer, What is the Question? With Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin [JFN Virtual Class]
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Learn from Loopholes with Justin Goldstein [JFN Virtual Class]
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The Jewish Calendar and Harvest Festivals
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Seasons of our Joy: A Modern Guide to the Jewish Holidays by Rabbi Arthur O. Waskow (1991) [Book]
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Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons by Rabbi Jill Hammer (2006) [Book]
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For Times Such as These by Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg and Rabbi Ariana Katz (2024) [Book]
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Introduction to the Jewish Agricultural Calendar with Anika Rice [JFN Virtual Class]
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Pilgrimage Festivals On The Farm with Sephirah Oshkello and Melanie Kessler [JFN Virtual Class]
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Sap and Seeds: A Tu B’Shvat Series with Rabbi Rachel “Bluth” Rosenbluth [JFN Virtual Class]
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The Spiralinear Calendar: Nested Cycles of Jewish Agricultural Time with Kizmet Grace [JFN Virtual Class]
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Torah of the Vine with Psachya Lichtenstein [JFN Virtual Class]
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Tzedek (justice) & Adamah (earth): An Intro Course with Ophir Haberer [JFN Virtual Course]
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On Stewarding Stolen Land as Displaced People with Rel B from The Place Love Project
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Miknaf Haaretz
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“Linke Fligl ends with love” on Can we talk? Podcast (October 2022)
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Land, Labor, Legacy: In Conversation with Southern Jewish Farmers from the Institute of Southern Jewish Life (November 2022) [podcast]
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Diasporic and Decolonial-Aspiring* Jewish Land Tending Zine by Leora Sarah
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Storytelling Towards Accountability: Sharing Our Tales Of Home In Diaspora with Chana Rusanov and Ollie Schwartz [JFN Virtual Class]
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Release & Repair: Shmita & Reparations in Our Lives with Chanah Rusanov and Sol Yael Weiss [JFN Virtual Class]
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Keynote: T'Shuva & Rematriation, Farming on Indigenous Land with Nazshonnii Brown-Almaweri and Ariel Luckey [JFN Virtual Class]
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How Radical Diasporism Contributes to Jewish Land Justice with Rachel Solnick [JFN Virtual Class]
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What is a Jewish Seed? By Masha Vernik and Spencer Roberts
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Knowing Seeds, Knowing Ourselves: A Conversation with Jewish Seed Keepers with K Greene and Betsy Samuelson [JFN Virtual Class]
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Perennial Torah of Trees with Shamu Fenyvesi Sadeh [JFN Virtual Class]
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Torah of the Vine with Psachya Lichtenstein [JFN Virtual Class]
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How Jewish Farmers are Divesting from White Supremacy by Anika Rice and Zachary Goldberg (2021)
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Transgender Jews are finding a safe haven in an unexpected place: the farm by Ben Harris (2021)
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Religious and Cultural Diversity on the Farm by Shani Mink
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Creating a Life on Land: The Soul Fire Farm Story with Leah Penniman, Neshima Vitale-Penniman, & Emet Vitale-Penniman [JFN Virtual Class]
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Gathering at the Edges of the Field: Disabled Jewish Wisdom with Land as our Ally with Sonia Brin, Loon Liebling, Rae Mindel-Katz Nathanson, Orly Rubinfeld, Ollie Schwartz [JFN Virtual Class]
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TransPlanted - A Panel of Trans Jewish Farmers with Shoshana Mackay, West Kaufman, Micha Chetrit, Sam Panken, & Simcha Halpert-Hanson [JFN Virtual Class]
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Keynote: Black & Jewish Relationships With The Land, Identity And Food with Michael Twitty [JFN Virtual Class]
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Conversations With African Jewish Farmers: Cultivating Culture, Torah Observance, Collective Responsibility, and Jewish Identity In Far Away Places with Akedah Eze, Robin Washington, Stacey Aviva Flint, Dayan Obidi, Ebenezer Igbokwe, Kamya Tarphon, Ephraim Orizo [JFN Virtual Offering]
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Kabbalah and Ecology: God’s Image in the More-Than- Human World by Rabbi David Mevorach Seidenberg (2015) [Book]
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An Introduction to Sabbath Agriculture by Jorian Polis Schutz & Yigal Deutscher [Book]
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"Behar Bechukotai" Talking Agricultural Torah with Adamah Fellowship Director Carly Sugar (May 2021)
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Halakha of the Harvest with Rabbi Dr. Levi Cooper
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Manhattan on the Farm with Jewish educator, Elyssa (April 2022) [podcast]
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Jewishly Rooted with Coastal Roots from Judaism Unbound (July 2022) [podcast]
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Introduction to Ancient Jewish Agricultural Texts with Shamu Fenyvesi Sadeh [JFN Virtual Class]
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Torah of Grains [JFN Virtual Class]
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Part 1: Wheat with Ian Yosef Hertzmark
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Part 2: Rye with Avery Robinson
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A Garden of Gratitude: Blessings for the Harvest with Nili Simhai and Rabbi David Seidenberg [JFN Virtual Class]
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Chewing the Cud with Jewish Livestock Farmers with Rabbi Aaron Philmus, Suzanna Goldblatt-Clark, Caleb Straus-Peretz & Cody Nicolson-Stratton [JFN Virtual Class]
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Torah of Bees with Raba Amalia Haas [JFN Virtual Class]
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Bees, Honey, and Torah with Raba Amalia Haas [JFN Virtual Class]
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Is Kosher Slaughter Humane? With Yadidya Greenberg [JFN Virtual Class]
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Or Hadash | עור חדש: Parchment Making as a Soil Regeneration Practice with Shoshana Gugenheim Kedem [JFN Virtual Class]
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Jews in American Agriculture: An Annotated Bibliography by Irwin Weintraub, 2007
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Jews in American agriculture; the history of farming by Jews in the United States by Jewish Agricultural Society (1954)
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The Land Was Theirs: Immigrant Farmers in the Garden State by Gertrude Dubrovsky (1992)
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Immigrants to Freedom: Jewish Communities in Rural New Jersey since 1882 by Joseph Brandeis (1971)
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Jewish Agricultural Utopias in America, 1880-1910 by Uri D Herscher (1981)
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Our Jewish Farmers [Book]
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American Jewish Farming Communities by the Yiddish Book Center [Video]
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Harvesting Stones documentary [Video]
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Professor Jonathan Dekel-Chen on talking about the long history of Jewish agricultural life from Abraham through the 21st century from Joy and Conversation (July 2022)
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Connecticut’s Jewish Farmers from Grating the Nutmeg: The Podcast of Connecticut History (2020) [podcast]
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Three Part History of Jewish Farmers in America by S Hertzberg (2009)
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Connecticut Jewish Farmers by Merrie Blocker (2017)
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A New Generation of Jewish Farmers Sees a Fertile Future in South Jersey by Kevin Riordan (2017)
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Coalfield Jews: An Appalachian History by Deborah R Weiner (2023) [Book]
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Der Idisher Farmer/ The Jewish Farmer Yiddish Language Publications (1908-1959)
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Land, Labor, Legacy: In Conversation with Southern Jewish Farmers
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100 Years of Farming at Himmelstein Homestead Farm with Frank Himmelstein [JFN Virtual Class]
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Russia and Eastern Europe
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On the Jewish Fields of the Ukraina by Issachar Ryback [article]
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Farming the Red Land: Jewish Agricultural Colonization and Local Soviet Power, 1924–1941 by Jonathan Dekel- Chen (2005)
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Introduction to the Study of the Jewish Agricultural Colonies in the Ukraine by Chaim Freedman (2005) [Article]
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Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Russia by Herman Rosenthal [article]
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Professor Jonathan Dekel-Chen on talking about the long history of Jewish agricultural life from Abraham through the 21st century from Joy and Conversation (July 2022)
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Andrew D. Berns, “The Land is Mine: Sephardi Jews and Bible Commentary in the Renaissance” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022) from New Books in History
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B'Bayit B'Midbar (at home in the desert) with Micah Chetrit [JFN Virtual Class]
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(Mostly) Everything You Wanted To Know About Jewish Farming History But Didn’t Know Who To Ask with Jonathan Dekel-Chen [JFN Virtual Class]
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A Call to Farms: Reconnecting to Nature, Food, and Community in a Modern World by Jennifer Grayson [book]
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Meredith Cohen: The Magic of Knowing Your Farmer from Bethelians (2020)
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Heritage Radio Network’s Let’s Talk About Food Podcast: Jewish Farmer Margaret Hathaway talking about the Maine Bi-Centenial cookbook and growing up Jewish in Maine (April 2021)
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Growing Community With Beantown Jewish Gardens from Jewish Boston (May 2021)
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“Why we are letting our homestead rest for a year” from The Schoolhouse Life (October 2021) [podcast]
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Manhattan on the Farm with Jewish educator, Elyssa (April 2022) [Podcast]
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Jewishly Rooted with Coastal Roots from Judaism Unbound (July 2022) [podcast]
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“Linke Fligl ends with love” on Can we talk? Podcast (October 2022) [podcast]
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Ba’Sadeh Podcast with Shani Mink (July 2022) [podcast]
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Land, Labor, Legacy: In Conversation with Southern Jewish Farmers from the Institute of Southern Jewish Life (November 2022) [podcast]
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Transgender Jews are finding a safe haven in an unexpected place: the farm by Ben Harris (2021)
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Jewish Farmer Sees the Value in Certified Naturally Grown Christmas Trees by Dan Sullivan
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Fine Art, Ranching, and Rural Living– with Artist Katie Herzog (Amusing Jews Podcast)
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A Farm Shop that Housed Cows by Susan Harlow
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Teens Go Back to the Future at Gann Farm by Penny Schwartz
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From Seed Library to Seed Company: The Story of K Greene and the Hudson Valley Seed Company by Michelle Dimuzio
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Connecting with Jewish and Indigenous People in Colorado Through Seeds by Michelle Dimuzio
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Cody Nicholson Stratton is the Unorthodox Farm Daddy by Evelyn Frick
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TransPlanted - A Panel of Trans Jewish Farmers with Shoshana Mackay, La’akea Kaufman, Micha Chetrit, Sam Panken, & Simcha Halpert-Hanson [JFN Virtual Class]
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B'Bayit B'Midbar (at home in the desert) with Micah Chetrit [JFN Virtual Class]
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100 Years of Farming at Himmelstein Homestead Farm with Frank Himmelstein [JFN Virtual Class]
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Knowing Seeds, Knowing Ourselves: A Conversation with Jewish Seed Keepers with K Greene and Betsy Samuelson [JFN Virtual Class]
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Conversations With African Jewish Farmers: Cultivating Culture, Torah Observance, Collective Responsibility, and Jewish Identity In Far Away Places with Akedah Eze, Robin Washington, Stacey Aviva Flint, Dayan Obidi, Ebenezer Igbokwe, Kamya Tarphon, Ephraim Orizo [JFN Virtual Offering]
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Cultivating Resilience Podcast from Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (FRSAN)
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Making Love While Farming with Deborah Leta Habib and Ricky Baruch [JFN Virtual Class]
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Keeping the Farm AND Shalom Bayit with Health Venenga [JFN Virtual Class]
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Religious and Cultural Diversity on the Farm by Shani Mink
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