Winter - Spring 2018 / 5778 Recap

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  Winter to Spring 2018/5778 at Linke Fligl

  Farm and chickens: New apartments built in the coop for breeding * 2018 season farm planning * Started hosting weekly community farm days * Revisioning the farm as a relational tool * Started selling LF chicken broth and preserved veggies * Made our first for-sale batch of chicken soup

  Programs: Lag b’Omer bonfire * Continued winter soup nights for local community * Purim celebration at Roundhouse with Isabella Freedman community * Multiple night overnight Passover gathering on the farm! And hosted a collaboratively-led 30 person community seder * More local community-led and organized events * Preparing to hold an all-night study of the Vision for Black Lives platform for Shavuot at Isabella Freedman in collaboration with JFREJ * Helped organize a shabbaton with JVP to launch a network of nonzionist/diasporist spiritual communities across the U.S. * Taught our diasporism class there!

  Organizational transformation: Chana joined the core team, holding down Jewish knowledge and farm & chickens * Drafted a comprehensive vision for Linke Fligl & formed an ad-hoc committee working on draft #2 * Queer leadership-Diasporist Jewish life and culture-Spirit, arts and healing-Solidarity and Organizing-Land Connection * Articulated draft of mission, vision and values! Working mission draft: “Linke Fligl is a queer Jewish chicken farm and cultural organizing project that uses farming and gathering to grow a Jewish culture aligned with values of diasporism, anti-oppression and dreaming of the world to come.” * Published updated website and program calendar * Established rings of community: Starting with core staff in the innermost circle => Roundhouse => Core collective => Local community => Wider radical movement * Organized roles and community-oriented process * Grew partnerships with aligned groups locally and nationally!