Summer 2018 - Spring 2019 / 5778-5779 Recap

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  Summer 2018 to Spring 2019 at Linke Fligl

  Farm and chickens: Bred and raised 80 baby chicks! (our third generation) * Started selling eggs at Random Harvest * Harvested, grew and tended our second full season of heirloom organic veggies, and fed them all to participants! * Planning season 3!

  Programs: Shavuot 4 Black Lives: Held all night study of Vision for Black Lives platform at Isabella Freedman * Co-hosted the first gathering of the Northeast Queer Farmer Network * Hosted 40 beautiful souls at our biggest Sukkot gathering yet * Taught classes on diasporism at Let My People Sing!, Svara, and to 3 Adamah cohorts * Developed curriculum on de-assimilating in response to shooting at Tree of Life synagogue * Collaborated with Wildseed, Rock Steady, Watershed to host Ruckus Society’s direct action and community resilience camp * Taught about cultural heritage through food preservation * Hosted the first JFREJ cultural organizing retreat! 20 amazing cultural organizers from NYC * Hosted two summer shabbatonim and 7 Jewish communities represented * Led havdalah at, and co-hosted, fall farm party * Collaborated to lead Rosh Hashanah services for 200+ people in Northampton, MA with Nishmat Shoom! * Second annual kosher slaughter (this time led by Blair Nosan)

  Organizational development : Created more paths to leadership and collaboration * Applied for first grant * Working to develop and integrate a reparations framework in our financial model * Established formal support and accountability structures * Hired to expand our team and expand capacity for org. sustainability * Established a new legal structure: LLC and fiscal sponsorship