2019 / 5779-5780 Recap

Another Season of Life at Linke Fligl! 5779-5780
On the land: Third full season of growing delicious veggies to nourish our programs * Raised 120 baby chicks * Started selling eggs at Random Harvest * Discovered willows! Sarika created an agroforestry willow restoration area * Built a tool shed and compost toilet at our Tammuz farm day * Mowed paths and explored new places on the land * Built a shul! (Place of prayer)
Programs, holidays and education: Held monthly Rosh Chodesh farm days from Nisan through Elul where we prayed, worked, ate and learned * Av JOC-led farm day with Shoshana Brown * Held our largest Sukkot gathering yet! Hosted 40 people over 2 days of chag * Simchat beit Hashoeva celebration and concert with Anat Hochberg, Arielle Korman, Batya Levine, Molly Bajgot, Gold Shapiro, Ariel Shapiro and Aly Halpert! * Led Days of Awe with Nishmat Shoom in Northampton! Prayed with over 300 radical + queer Jews * Hosted L.O.L. (Liberation of Land), Wildseed’s youth rites of passage program * Started LF’s first cultural organizing team! Community leadership, developing our theory of change and guiding our strategy and programs
Organizational growth: Started a 10% land tax with Schaghticoke First Nations * Hosted 4 land residencies * Expanded staff team! Welcomed Ollie as logistics and fundraising coordinator, and Sarika as creative consultant and garden/earth tender this summer

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