The Wild Jewish Year - Cohort 4 (November 2026 - November 2027)
Join us to 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. We will build community with participants from across the UK, sharing poetry, song, wild-craft, foraging, food-growing & medicine-making skills & tips, grounding 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 and folks we share them with. 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, to do this while honouring multi-rooted heritage & weaving the beautiful complexity of our identities.
Connection to jewish ritual and practice with an ecological & justice-focused lens feels like an essential act of repair & healing in these times. Join us for a poignant journey of deepening connection to the wilds in and around us, while building ecologically rooted jewish community and cultivating deeper understanding of the richness of jewish cycles of time and jewish wisdom across the seasons.
The sessions themselves will consist of cohort sharing time, ritual practice, Torah of the month & invitations to wild-craft & build core routines in nature-connection between the sessions. There will also be the opportunity to be paired with a chevruta (a learning partner) for the year, to deepen relationship to the content and community.
These sessions will be held by Sara Moon & Samson Hart. 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 an ordained Kohenet//Hebrew-Priestess, nature-connection facilitator, Jewish educator and co-founder of Miknaf Ha’aretz and Camp Beenu. After many years of rich Jewish learning at Pardes & Paideia, environmental education training with Forest School & Wildwise, growing food at Adamah Jewish Food & Farming Fellowship (and market gardens across 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 7 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 project coordinator for The Agroecology Learning Collective, and a director/coordinating group member of 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), Tending the Green Fire, and many more!
This offering is open to those who identify as jewish in the most inclusive and expansive sense; including those with jewish ancestry looking to learn more about their heritage; and those on a conversion journey.
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 on Wednesdays, close to Rosh Chodesh (the New Moon/new Jewish month), starting Wednesday 11th November 2026.
We encourage full participation in the year-long programme, with live attendance encouraged as much as possible. However all sessions will be recorded if you can’t attend live.
Some reflections from past participants here:
“The Wild Jewish Year is rich, earth-centered, Jewish learning. It's held with a lot of care and taught with a lot of knowledge. In a largely Zionist landscape in the mainstream Jewish world, it's so valuable to have an alternative British Jewish space through a diasporist lens”. Participant WJY 23/24
“The Wild Jewish Year is a tender, captivating and connecting programme facilitated with humility and a deep experiential wisdom”. Participant WJY 23/24
“The Wild Jewish Year was a beautiful experience, orienting Jewish ancestral practice in these lands and in my local eco-system. It has been supportive, held, compassionate, nourishing and is highly recommended”. Participant WJY 23/24
"I got to go deep, I got to go wide. Sara and Samson hold the group in such love and radical acceptance of our humanity that a blossoming is possible. They do it with joy and humour and a lightness of touch." Participant WJY 24/5
Dates & Time (for 2026-27 - Cohort 4)
Sessions will take place 19:30 - 21:00 GMT
Wednesdays
Kislev - 18th November
Tevet - 16th December
Shvat - 13th January
Adar I - 10th February
Adar II - 10th March
Nissan - 7th April
Iyar - 12th May
Sivan - 9th June
Tammuz - 7th July
Av - 4th August
Elul - 1st September
Tishrei - 6th October
Cheshvan - 3rd November
Cost
These are the sliding scale options for the whole year, which includes access to all 13 sessions, the Wild Jewish Year cohort community, follow up resources for every month of the year and recordings of all the sessions.
Supported - £200
Standard - £250
Supporter - £300
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.
Miknaf Ha'aretz organises to heal, repair and transform Jewish belonging & connection to land, as an antidote to zionism and nationalism. We are cultivating earth-based, radical, diasporist jewish community in the UK through immersive, courses, retreats & events exploring nature-connection, food & land justice & regenerative farming. We insist on uplifting Jewish safety, belonging and re-connection to land through a politics of solidarity and collective liberation. Find out more about Miknaf Ha'aretz here.
