The Wild Jewish Year (March 2023 - February 2024)
Wild Jewish Year Cohort II will begin in Spring 2024, we will open booking soon… sign up for our newseltter, follow us on instagram, or fill in this expression of interest form if you’d like to hear when booking is open.
We will journey together through the Jewish year, cycling through ancient earth-based Jewish ritual & practice & exploring the wisdom connected to each of the Jewish months, as they meet the lands we are currently living on. Through poetry, song, wild-craft, foraging, food-growing & medicine-making, we will ground deeper in the places we call home, enriching our knowings of the sacred cycles of Jewish time while cultivating deeper intimacy with the lands we are on. Our enquiry will be grounded in deepening connection to the particular bio-regions we live in, as a diasporist practice, a practice of hereness. And, for us, this must include honouring our multi-rooted heritage & identity & making space for that in the places we are.
These sessions will be held by Sara Moon & Samson Hart along with some special guests along the way! The sessions will be very interactive, with community knowledge and wisdom at the centre - we are excited to learn from and with you all!
Sara is a nature-connection facilitator, Jewish educator, Hebrew-Priestess-in-training and co-founder of Miknaf Ha’aretz and Camp Beenu. After many years of abundant Jewish learning at Pardes & Paideia, environmental education training with Forest School & Wildwise, growing food at Adamah Jewish Food & Farming Fellowship (and market gardens across the North of England), Sara is so excited to be weaving wild Torah and Jewish time with the mossy ecologies of here. She loves wild swimming, cycling & foraging and currently lives in South Devon.
Samson is food grower, aspiring seed-saver, facilitator and co-founder of Miknaf Ha’aretz. He has been tending land and market-gardening across farms in the Southwest of the UK for over 5 years, and currently tends a kitchen garden on the edge of Dartmoor. Samson holds an MA in Regenerative Economics from Schumacher College (which focused on land and food justice), he has completed the Jewish farming fellowship at Adamah (in Connecticut, US) and is currently a creative associate at gentle/radical, and South-west co-ordinator for the Landworkers Alliance. He also loves cooking, baking bread, wild swimming and reading/writing poetry.
The Wild Jewish Year will be influenced by our own amazing learning experiences with; Adamah Jewish Food & Farming Fellowship, Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, Pardes & Paideia Institute for Jewish Studies, Forest School Association, Radical Nature Connection (Ulex Project), Schumacher College, Call of the Wild (Wildwise) and many more!
No Jewish or land-based knowledge assumed. Due to the focus on local-ecologies, these sessions will cater specifically to those currently living in the UK, though there may still be relevance for those with similar ecologies in Europe. If you want to come and you are outside of these regions, please get in touch to check suitability.
We will meet monthly, around Rosh Chodesh (the New Moon/new Jewish month), starting Wednesday 22nd March.
Those joining for the whole journey will be invited to a check in before each session and will be sent seasonal surprises in the post to guide our journey together.
We encourage full participation in the year-long programme, however there will also be a few limited slots to sign up for individual monthly sessions. These will become available nearer the time of the session. All sessions will be recorded if you can’t attend live.
The virtual journey is stand-alone although it would be a great complement to the in-person gatherings. More info on the in-person gatherings coming next week!
Dates & Time (for 2023-4 - Cohort I)
Cohort check-in: Directly before session, timings tbc.
Session: 19:30 - 21:00 GMT
Wednesdays
22nd March 2023 (Nisan)
19th April 2023 (Iyar)
17th May 2023 (Sivan)
21st June 2023 (Tamuz)
19th July 2023 (Av)
August - break with invitation for reflective chevruta practice (Elul)
20th September 2023 (Tishrei)
18th October 2023 (Cheshvan)
15th November 2023 (Kislev)
13th December 2023 (Tevet)
10th January 2024 (Shvat)
7th February 2024 (Adar)
Cost
These are the sliding scale options for the whole year, which includes access to all 11 sessions, welcome pack, seasonal surprises in the post & check ins each month with your cohort:
£100 / £150 / £200
We want to make these sessions as accessible as possible whilst making them financially viable and supporting the work we are doing around Jewish land justice in the UK. Please pay according to what you can afford, bearing in mind giving generously offers more opportunity for those on lower incomes to access these sessions. If this course really speaks to you and finance is an issue, please get in touch for a further reduced or free ticket (subject to enough paid sign ups). Payment plans are also possible if needed, do get in touch.
A few tickets for individual sessions will be released the month prior to that session.
Booking now open!