Stories, Impact & News

[April 9, 2025] …Seven farms in the Northwest Corner have been awarded a combined total of $100,000 in the second round of Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy’s climate-smart agricultural and forest grant program.

The initiative provides direct funding to farmers to enable them to adopt practices that enhance sustainability, productivity and climate resilience. In total, 15 awardees from across Litchfield County and northwestern Fairfield County received a combined $212,000 in the program’s second round….

[July 1, 2024] …On a personal level, Jews have always taken seriously the connection between what happens in farm fields and what is ethically and spiritually fit…

[March 4, 2024] Our interconnectedness with other species is abundantly clear when you are plucking a fresh berry off the vine with a bee nestling into an adjacent flower or while digging a potato out of loose dirt under the flapping wings of a red-tailed hawk. The imperative to be thoughtful in those relationships through food becomes unavoidable….

[VIDEO] USDA celebrated the contributions of the Jewish community in agriculture & food security for Jewish American Heritage Month…

[VIDEO] …what better place to say the blessing than a vegetable farm called Adamah. In this part of the Seder when we bless the fruits of the earth, we notice our place in the cycles of the world and how to live better within it…

The Jewish practice of determining what is “fit to eat” (a literal translation of “kosher”) is complex in this age of global food systems. It is not simply upon us…

[January 6, 2021] We are tracking opportunities for the Jewish community to tip the scales toward effective policy. Join our advocacy alert list and we’ll call you to action…

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 | Erev Chanukah   Dear All, First: a huge thank you to every single person who has supported us in 2020. A record number of people supported…

Thursday, October 15, 2020 | 27 Tishrei 5781 Dear All, The Jewish holidays are over, and the rest of our lives now proceeds. I’ve been thinking about one particular future…

The history in our little corner of Falls Village mirrors broader patterns across the continent. Indigenous communities going back many generations used slash and burn techniques to create abundant edge habitats for foraging and hunting and……

December 13, 2018 | 5 Tevet 5779
Isabella Freedman is a place that touches people’s lives individually and strengthens and thickens Jewish institutions……

by Mordechai Schram, Director of Food Services It seems like just yesterday that we celebrated Shavuot/Yom Habikurim with a celebration of First Fruits – reveling in the tingling fresh taste…