And here is our sukkah! The walls are bed sheets that we dyed using Goldenrod flowers and black walnuts from our field.
SK students from Leo Baeck (North Campus) visited the garden to help us harvest the Atomic Red Carrots that they planted as JK students in the spring!
Harvesting turnips!
We hosted our first ever Sukkot Celebration! Over 50 community members joined us to sing, study and enjoy a candle-lit vegetarian potluck dinner together in our sukkah.
Thank you everyone for helping make our first season at the Kavanah Garden an extraordinary one! A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed their time, energy, and vision to this project.With radical gratitude,
Risa Alyson Strauss (Kavanah Garden Program Director)
Our sweetest harvest yet! Straight from the cabbage patch!
Oh alright, here are the real cabbages.
We've been working hard in the garden. There is Ron harvesting the cabbages.
Our young strawberry plants are really too new to put out much fruit. But Tamara certainly enjoyed our first and only strawberry of the season!
We've got plenty of zucchinis (and other veggies), but our fruit seem to be growing in singles this year. This is our melon!
And we had a surprise guest as well. Presenting the common garden snake - in OUR garden! Mark promptly caught it to show around. It had been wiggling around in our tomato bed.
Volunteers helped us to paint signs showing all of our different vegetable crops.
The entrance way to our garden has been significantly improved with this Torah-full piece of art. It was painted by a bat-mitzvah girl who is working at the garden as her bat-mitzvah project.
Our garden beds are now labeled with Hebrew letters. We'll never get lost again!
Children of our CSA members often come along to pick up their boxes. They love hunting for snails on Thursday afternoons, while their parents choose their produce.
A volunteer helping us mow the pathways using a push lawn mower - with a bit of extra muscle we are limiting the amount of fossil fuel we need to maintain our garden.
This is a picture of Tamara building our solar oven, in honour of Birkat HaChama (blessing of the sun which occurs once every 28 years, which we did in February).
Bok Choy
Crooked Neck Squash
Our apprentices went raspberry picking at a local organic farm and then learned how to make raspberry jam, which was sold at the community festival.
Volunteers set up the solar oven to cook pizzas with freshly picked herbs.
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