By: Olivia and her mom, Anne Marie 6-year old Olivia and her mom, Anne Marie are huge fans of Shoresh’s Kavanah Garden and have been coming to our FREE weekly drop-in for four years! Here’s why: 1. Catching Grasshoppers Olivia loves…
Deepening Our Roots Together
On October 27th, more than 150 community members gathered at the Artscape Sandbox in downtown Toronto to learn about Shoresh’s 7-year vision for Bela Farm. Together, we created a beautiful, warm, heart-felt evening that left everyone in the room with…
It Takes A Community to Launch a Farm
We’re having a REALLY big event in a two weeks! Organizing Taking Root: Stories to Ground and Inspire Us All has taken many hours, minds and hands to make happen. Like our garden and farm projects as well as family…
Taking Root at Bela Farm
After three years of intensive dreaming, visioning, mapping and planning, we are ready to reveal our 7-year plan for developing Shoresh’s programs and ventures at Bela Farm, a new centre for sustainable, land-based Judaism in rural Ontario!!!!! Our intention is…
Honey Time is Here
For the past five months the honey bees at Bela Farm have been working hard gathering pollen and nectar from the flowers of Hillsburgh, Ontario. Making honey is an awesome and labour-intensive process that requires communication and team effort from…
Reflections from a Jewish Beekeeper
By: Sabrina Malach Shoresh’s Director of Community Engagement and Resident Beekeeper at Bela Farm As the resident beekeeper at Bela Farm, I have had the great privilege and honour to collaborate with the thousands of honey bees that call Bela Farm…
From Seed to Tzedakah
By Claire Lipson, Shoresh’s Lead Educator (2015) Throughout the season I have witnessed hundreds of children getting their hands in the garden, sowing seeds and watering plants with excited eyes and big smiles. We explain to school groups that we are growing a…
No Mess Planting (for kids and adults)
By: Orli Schwartz, Shoresh Intern 2014 The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. (Genesis 2:15) In order to gain a greater appreciation for the environment, I always feel…
5 Outdoor Edible Fruits Around Your Neighbourhood
By: Orli Schwartz, Shoresh Intern 2014 One day Choni HaM’agel was journeying on the road and he saw a man planting acarob tree; he asked him, “How long does it take for this tree to bear fruit?” The man replied, “Seventy…
An Ode to Fields and Playgrounds
By: Sabrina Malach, Leo Baeck Graduate 1993 “כל עשב ועשב אומר שירה לה’ יתברך” “Every blade of grass sings a song to God.” -Rebbe Nachman of Breslov One of my most meaningful childhood memories is the smell…