12 results for author: Owner of Eden Village Camp


First night of Staff Training!


Peter Yarrow (from Peter, Paul & Mary) invites you to his NYC home for an Eden Village fundraiser!

Dear Friends, I'm very pleased to invite you to my home in Manhattan for a benefit supporting the extraordinary work of Eden Village Camp, the innovative Jewish farm-to-table & arts camp an hour north of NYC. Monday, April 30th 6:00 - 8:00pm Near Columbus Circle in Manhattan, NYC Local organic Kosher hors d'oeuvres & wine served Click here to buy your ticket: http://peteryarrowedenvillage.eventbrite.com/ The happiness, excitement and heartfelt way in which the Eden Village campers and staff interact is moving and beautiful. As founding president of Operation Respect, a non-profit working to assure each ...

Curiosity = Freedom?

As we move towards Passover, we journey through the narrow places (mitzrayim) of Winter into the open, lush landscape of Spring. We can feel the season working its magic: the more time we spend outside, the more Spring does to us what it does to the cherry blossom trees! As we read in the Hagaddah (the Passover seder story), we are asked to celebrate our freedom and to remember: "Today, we are slaves. Next year, we will be free." The Exodus is a story of our past, but it is relevant today - for one, it's time to explore how we can more fully experience liberation and the world that we envision. Connecting with our land and community ...

Celebrating Tu B’shvat… By Living Up in a Tree?

Jewish camp directors spend week aloft in a redwood “tree-sit” In preparation for Tu B’shvat, my husband and I lived this past week 150 feet up in the air into an ancient and endangered redwood tree in northern California. We cooked, slept and made Shabbat in the over-200-year-old trees as part of an environmental protection action, called “tree-sitting”, to keep the trees from being cut down. Our grove included 50 redwoods connected by ziplines; these trees would have been cut down three years ago were it not for the continual presence of “tree-sitters” living high up in them. Redwoods are the tallest ...

“Camper Girl” takes on the White House!

Watch as our sometimes clueless, infinitely entertaining and always lovable friend (who may or may not bear a likeness to Joanna Katz) takes action in D.C., together with other Eden Village friends. Note: This is full of jokes that will make most sense if you were here during Summer 2011, but it works either way.

Living our Values at the Festival of Eden

Warm autumn sky, a mega-stage, bicycle-churned ice cream and over 450 people celebrating sustainable Jewish living.... On September 25, 2011, Eden Village Camp held our first annual Festival of Eden. The event was a tangible way for the community to experientially connect with principles of sustainability, environmentalism, and Jewish tradition. Eden Village Camp nourishes the connections between self, community, earth, and spirit with socially and environmentally conscious programming that is firmly rooted in Jewish tradition. The Festival of Eden showcased this philosophy through hands-on workshops on organic cooking, fermenting, keeping ...

The groundbreaking Festival of Eden – this Sunday!

Fun + Meaning == A Complete Life Compass. Come get a big dose of both fun and meaning at the innovative Festival of Eden, this Sunday, Sept. 25th, 2011, 12-7p at Eden Village Camp! 392 Dennytown Road, Putnam Valley, NY 10579 Celebrate the Organic Oneness of Life, all People and the Earth: farming and greening workshops organic farm-to-table food live music ADULTS $30, YOUTH AND STUDENTS $20 CONTACT ELANA FOR GROUP RATES WHAT IS EDEN VILLAGE CAMP? Eden Village Camp will be hosting the first annual Festival of Eden, a day full of farming and greening workshops, local organic food from our own and ...

Goal-setting for campers

When setting goals, the more specific and achievable we make them, the more likely we can reach them! Below is a fun list of goals our campers can look through in considering their own goals for their summer at Eden Village Camp. This is just a brainstorm to get them started! ~ Farm • Make challah from scratch • Learn to use a solar cooker • Make a cob oven • Experience a farm not just as a place of food but of food, fiber, fun, fuel, farmacy, beauty and community • Leave camp with the confidence that if I want, I can create and maintain my own garden on some scale • Discover the deep and juicy connections between Judaism and agricultu...

Seeking your suggestions for naming our new bunks!

Dear Friends, As Eden Village Camp expands - 231 campers this year as of now, up from 134 in our first summer last year! -- we have renovated new cabins, which of course need inspiring names. The theme is Jewish environmental heroes who memory we want to bless. For example, we have bunks named Heschel, Besht, Noach and Miriam. Your suggestions invited!

Spring reflections from one of Eden Village’s farm interns, Faryn Hart…

As Spring settles in and the new growing season is well on its way in the Hudson Valley, we at Eden Village Camp and the Jewish Farm School have begun cultivating the fields and planting seeds in the thawed soil and in the eager minds that have joined us for our Spring programs. Arriving onsite as a farm apprentice just a few weeks ago, I was beyond excited to get my hands dirty again growing the food that will feed us this season, and helping create programs to energize and educate people of all ages through the Spring, Summer and Fall. It was inspiring noticing which perennials survived the winter, the daffodils piercing the brown forest with ...

Eden Village Camp Video and Events!

Dear Friends, We're thrilled to present our first-ever Eden Village Camp video!! We hope you get a sense of camp from it, and emerge smiling. Please share this with anyone who might like to know that there is a Jewish organic farm, wilderness and arts camp! Also, please visit our Spring events page! Tons of exciting family programming coming up, including Sugar Mapling this Sunday, Beekeeping 101, Family Farm & Picnic days, and more. http://www.jewishfarmschool.org/edenvillage/ Warmly, Vivian, Yoni and the Eden Village family

Eden Village Camp slideshow!

Click here to view! http://animoto.com/play/y346I2ced8hscmBve2vTpQ