jewish farmers

Transgender Jews are finding a safe haven in an unexpected place: the farm

At least one in ten participants in the Adamah Jewish farming fellowship have changed their gender pronouns in the course of the program.

Jewish farms are booming. Now the farmers want to grow their community.

The new generation taking to the land is discovering a hunger for something not easily found in most pockets of rural America: other Jews.

The Jewish Chicken Farmers of New Jersey

Think “New Jersey Jews.” What do you see? Kids swimming at Jewish day camps, suburban synagogues surrounded by parking lots, Yiddish-speaking peasants raising chickens–Oh wait, not that last one? Think back to 1882, when 43 families fled pogroms in Russia and settled in southern New Jersey, to begin a new life as farmers. They left […]