If you know anything about Shoresh, you know we love pollinators and especially, bees. A lot. We love the pollinators so much that we’ve dedicated a lot of our programming, events, garden spaces AND 20-acres of Bela Farm to supporting…
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Saving the Bees for My Bat Mitzvah
We caught up with Dani Zeiler, a local great 8 student who has decided to share some of her Bat Mitzvah gifts with Shoresh. Dani has an awesome older sister and the most adorable fluffy dog. Dani loves her family,…
Our Top Ten Accomplishments of the Decade
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2018 marks our 10th anniversary and we are overflowing with pride and joy over all of our accomplishments! Our theme of the year is the Power of Many because everything we do at Shoresh is done with community members and…
WOW for Bees and Honey!
Awe is more than an emotion; it is a way of understanding, insight into a meaning greater than ourselves. The beginning of awe is wonder, and the beginning of wisdom is awe. -Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel WOW is our favorite…
Top 3 Ways to Sweeten Your New Year
We are thrilled to offer the community these three awesome ways to honor family and friends this Rosh Hashana. 1. Honey Our honey bees have been working super hard gathering and transforming nectar for Bela Farm’s wildflowers into honey and…
If You Plant It, They Will Come
Shoresh’s favourite word is “wow” and one of our all-time-favourite sources of wonder and wow is the process of pollination. Watching a bee fly from flower to flower seeking nectar and pollen while inadvertantly spreading pollen from one flower to…
The Shoresh Socialite: Anthony Rose
Shoresh loves chef/restaurateur/yogi Anthony Rose and all the amazing contributions he’s made to nurturing Jewish food culture in Toronto. We first met him at Beyond Bubbie, an event we co-organized with the Ontario Jewish Archives and the Miles Nadal JCC to…
Life with Bees-March
To help develop and nurture your inner WOW Shoresh will be sharing seasonal tidbits about the lives of our honey bees and what they’re up to at Bela Farm. What do Bela’s Bees do in March? Imagine spending a…
Life With Bees: January-February
To help develop and nurture your inner WOW Shoresh will be sharing seasonal tidbits about the lives of our honey bees and what they’re up to at Bela Farm. “As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is…
Happy 4th Day of Chanukah!
In celebration of Chanukah, Shoresh is highlighting eight of the many ways we are bringing more light into the world. Day 4: We’ve Nurtured Almost 1 Million Bees and 3 Monarch Butterflies For a complete look at how we are repairing the world, read…