Stewarded by Noah Weinberg in 2019, community came together to turn mostly unused grass fields into a community space for growing and learning skills. Since then many hands have come together to shlep compost and wood chips including: Eli Witkin (JOFEE Fellow), Emily Nadel (Serve the Moment Fellow Summer 2020-Spring 2021, Gilat Bailen (Serve the Moment Fellow Summer 2020), and many Gann Faculty, Staff, Students, and friends of the community.
Get involved!
Find fresh produce at the farm stand, volunteer on a work day, or dream up a project of your own!
Gann Academy’s new Jewish farm is a space that facilitates transformative experiences, renewing our shared connection to Jewish tradition and the Earth.
The Gann Farm is:
A regenerative vegetable farm growing many varieties of vegetables and herbs
An outdoor classroom providing a dynamic learning environment
A living laboratory for exploring Earth-based Judaism
The Gann Farm heeds the call of our tradition, חַדֵּשׁ יָמֵינוּ כְּקֶֽדֶם Hadesh Yameynu keKedem, (Lamentations 5:21), “renew our lives as in days of old,” by growing a connected, thriving, and earth-based Jewish community.
Learn more at https://www.gannacademy.org/academics/the-gann-farm