On Yom Kippur we enter a powerful portal where we offer a collective prayer for life. This prayer has never been more urgent. We invite you to join us to drop in deeper to this powerful moment in time, to incubate our prayers for the year ahead & to honour the beloved dead at our backs in soul-ful, song-ful community & nature-connected contemplation.

Radical Farm Camp is back! This year we will be gathering in the wilds of South Devon on our home-turf to learn from some extraordinary land projects leading the way on regenerative food and farming practices, ecological repair & liberatory belonging.

In this time of crisis and rupture, how can we resource ourselves through ecological stories while grounding in our own heritage? In this three-part online series we will explore the possibilities of Nature as Teacher, and turn our ears to the Torah waiting for us in our deepest connection to river, mountain, and sea.

In times of increasing nationalism, fascism & border violence, how do we cultivate liberatory relationships with land in ways that heal, nourish, repair and transform us all? Learning from those on the front-lines of the violence of empire protecting their lands and culture from erasure, assimilation & theft, join us for our latest virtual series exploring the possibilities of finding homeland, healing and liberation beyond nationalism and nation-states.

11th-13th October Hazel Hill Woods, Salisbury, Wiltshire

“The book of life and the book of death are one book. The opposite of life is not death. The opposite of life is Empire.” - Kohenet Val Schlosberg

On Yom Kippur we enter a powerful portal where we offer a collective prayer for life. This prayer has never been more urgent. We invite you to join us on retreat in the woods for Yom Kippur 5785 to drop in deeper to this powerful moment in time, to incubate our prayers for the year ahead & to honour the beloved dead at our backs in soul-ful, song-ful community & nature-connected contemplation.

This will be a creative, embodied, experiential take on the traditional High Holy Day liturgy and practice grounded in the Kohenet tradition. Services will be held by Kohenet Rachel Rose Reid, Kohenet Sara Moon, Samson Hart & others TBC. There will be prayer time and more structured learning sessions alongside much space to wander, reflect, meditate, sing and be in silence!

Camp Beenu is a new Jewish youth movement in the UK cultivating nature-connected, diasporic Jewish identity rooted in justice and solidarity. Building on the success of our first two camps we are back this summer for our 3rd year!

Radical Farm Camp is back! Join us again this summer for a 5 day immersion in ‘Radical Jewish Farming’ where we will get our hands in the soil, cook delicious farm to table feasts, learn about jewish land justice & build community on the land.

We will learn practical organic food growing skills through hands on experience in a working market garden. We will trace Jewish histories of food and farming, engaging in ancestral practices of growing and preparing food, cooking together and enjoying delicious farm to table feasts. We will explore the Torah of a Jewish land justice & the radical potentials of soil as solidarity and how we might get involved in land justice struggles in the UK today. We will wake early to pray & sing in community, We will experience a proper ‘Farmer’s Shabbat’, resting together at the culmination of our retreat. We will build kindred & supportive community.

An educational fundraiser in support of Mashjar Juthor.

Join Miknaf Ha’aretz & The Kitchen Table to welcome and learn from Palestine-based urban farmer and food activist Morgan Cooper who will be sharing from her experiences of food and land justice struggles under military occupation.

We will be raising funds for Mashjar Juthor, for conservation, planting and caring for trees in occupied Palestine and educational work around Palestinian agricultural and culinary heritage in the face of land theft and cultural erasure.

As foodies, farmers & activists in the land and food justice movement in the UK, it feels imperitive to connect with and build solidarity with farmers and land-workers in occupied Palestine facing immense threats to their livelihoods and existence. We are so honoured to welcome Morgan and her family to Devon and to learn more how we can support Palestinian liberation and Palestinian food & farming heritage as it is being lost through decades of disposession from land and militarized control with what remains.

We warmly invite you to join us for these two very special events to learn and be together, uplifting Palestinian life through food culture and celebration of Palestine's rich agricultural & culinary heritage.

Our lineage is suffused with wild tales. Our ancestors knew themselves as kin to the breathing earth & the rhythms of jewish time supported deep connection to the earth. But empire & dispossession has uprooted us from our lineages as a land-based people. How do we reconnect with this birthright? How do we cultivate ecological belonging in ways that affirm our jewishness & reject nationalism? How to retrieve & re-imagine jewish ways of liberated connection to land?

This offering will explore radical nature-connection through a Jewish lens, learning from some of the most inspiring and renowned nature-connection facilitators & educators from the Jewish world and beyond, exploring tracking, bird-language, land justice & the ecologies of doykeit/hereness. This training will take place deep in the mountains of Wales with a ceremonial nature-vigil at the culmination of our retreat to prepare us for Shavuot.

What is ‘land justice’ & how might it offer a revolutionary re-imagining of our world?

Like the mycelial networks that weave between, beyond, through, with and around us, issues of land justice intersect and inter-weave with all other issues for ecological and social justice.

In our latest virtual series, we want to examine these tendrils of connection, exploring the entwinement between our struggles and solidarities with peoples across the world and across time. We will explore the abolitionist roots of land justice, Palestinian liberation, the Kurdish struggle, revolutionary shepherding and its link with migrant justice, & how the Right to Roam movement & wider UK land justice movement are bringing about this vision in the UK and re-imagining the commons as a treasury for all.

We are beyond excited to share details about our upcoming in-person programming for ‘The Wild Jewish Year’.

We will be gathering across Britain’s wild places, from the River Dart, to the Wye Valley to deep South Devon. We will drink in the Torah of the lands and the waters, sing by the fire under starry skies, learning from each other & the lands we are on through radical nature-connection practices, earth-based Jewish spirituality, regenerative agriculture, re-wilding and land justice.

Each offering will be unique in content and context with different access considerations. You are welcome to apply for all programs or individual ones, they are stand-alone.

Join us this Shavuot as we receive the Torah of the River Dart. Spending our days in deep connection & conversation with the ecologies of this watershed, by canoeing their sacred waters, mikveh-ing (ritually immersing) in them, camping at their sides & walking their banks. 

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.

“Diasporism takes root in the Jewish Socialist Labor Bund’s principle of doikayt—hereness—the right to be, and to fight for justice, wherever we are… Hereness demands that we learn our local histories and resurrect hidden ones of our own. Hereness means we refuse to disappear into the interiority of our liturgy, and equally refuse to stop being Jews in public. Hereness forces us to consider critically our relationship with class and its ordering of our world. Hereness is weird and materialist and queer and fun and angry, and best of all it’s already happening.” - Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz

Tracing a journey through ancient Jewish texts & histories through to contemporary co-liberation struggles, these sessions will delve into this hereness and explore the possibilities of a Jewish identity beyond nationalism & assimilation. We want to explore what it means to affirm & embrace a belonging and connection to the lands we are on now, cultivating a Jewish identity that is both multi-rooted & committed to cross-diasporic solidarity.

The end of the Shmita year is upon us. What do we take from this ancient rest year into the next Shmita cycle? How might be celebrate Sukkot through a lense of wise Torah, deep nature-connection, and radical-diasporism?