2016 - 2017 / 5779-5777 Recap

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  2016-2017: “The Past” (includes some repetition and overlap with the 2017 Recap infographic)

  2016: Got 205 chickens from Frank Reese/JIFA in May 2016 * Raised in Wildseed barn * Started building the coop once the chickens got here; it took 1.5 months * They outgrew the barn and lived on the Wildseed lawn * Moved to coop in July * First slaughter in Fall 2016 og 76 chickens at Herondale’s * Started laying eggs in fall/winter

  Apparel, T-shirts, tanks, hats * Sukkot on the land * Margot + Adin, support from Aly * Liel and Noam helped out with the coop * Chicken care * Figuring out website, social media, accounting, LLC, cooperative, branding * What’s left wing in Yiddish? * Painted + stained the coop * Road signs up that fall * Hosting Shabbat occasionally * Land plowed in fall * Built stove, outdoor kitchen, sukkah * Adamah/Wildseed/Rock Steady day in Fall 2016 * Adin, Aly and Margot went to Standing Rock in November * Organized out of Round House

  2017: Passover weekend and seder * Shavuot: Shabbat on the land and all night learning * Expanded apparel, calendars, sweatshirts, feathers

  Winter: Organized the basement, set up the blood shop and freezers * Garden planning and seed buying * Adin built apartments and breed boxes

  March and April: Breeding * Random eggs with broody hens * Divided eggs by breed * Bought more chicks * Got some from Eden Village * All raised at Wildseed again (some in RH basement)

  Spring: Built tent platforms * Compost toilet * Linke Fligl table at JVP in April: First time representing LF outside * Planted garden! Tilled in May/June

  Summer: Vegetable growing and processing * Vision days! One with Molly, Sol, Em, Adin * Follow-up day with Em and Batya * Sol started in August * Elderberries, farming, chicken chores

  Fall: Sukkot! Oct. 4-8 * Rock Steady party + havdalah * Bracha the bus * Dance party with queer yogis + Batya underwear burning * Sol + Margot debrief night on the bus * Roundhouse became its own entity October * Maddy, Juan, Al, Aly come on * College shabbaton * Aly’s musical * Meeting Winona LaDuke * Vision around land/liberation/solidarity work * First soup & cards, soup & study/triangle study group * Margot went to MMMC: Regrounding in wealth redistribution and land reparations work * JFREJ, M4BL, Tightshift, Svara, JVP, Random Harvest, Wildseed, dreams of collaboration * Accountability and part of something bigger * Deepening with Wildseed * Dreaming about college apprenticeships * Diasporism classes * ADVA workshop *Joined JVP havurah network