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In this newsletter: New Video • New at Eden • Counselor Spotlight •
$1,000 off •
Special Grants
Spring Events Calendar •
Family Camp • Teen Internships •
EVC near you •
Free books
Our First-Ever Camp Video!
Please enjoy, and share with your friends, the first-ever Eden Village Camp video! One of our funders, the Natan Foundation, prefaced this video by writing: "Want to see what Jewish innovation looks like...?"
What's New at Eden?
 Cool updates this summer include a new CERAMICS program with pottery wheel and kiln, adding SHEEP and BEE-KEEPING to our farm animals (which means spinning wool, collecting honey and making beeswax candles), building a bunk-sized TREEHOUSE (email us your suggestions for its location!), a huge CLAY OVEN, MURAL-PAINTING, converting our engines to run on waste veggie oil, dedicated specialists for YOGA and CULINARY ARTS (including professional baking) and additional specialists in Wilderness, Science of Nature, and Art, and expanded programs in boating, hiking, theater and dance.
We're also adding a new layer of senior staff like Tribe Leaders, Program Coordinator and Operations Associate, who will grow and strengthen our program and bunk life.
Our 150 campers so far hail from...
AZ, CA, CT, DC, FL, IL, OH, KY, MA, MD, MN, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, VA, VT... and Singapore, England, Canada, and Israel!
Limited availability remains in most age groups and sessions.
Tell your friends to register so they don't miss out!
Madricha (Counselor) Spotlight!
 Mónica Gomery hails from Boston, Massachusetts, where she was raised by Venezuelan Jews. She speaks English and Spanish and is currently studying Biblical Hebrew. Mónica has worked as a theater artist, an educator, a community organizer, a Spanish-language translator and interpreter, and an organic farmer. Over the last year she has studied in two yeshivot in New York City, as well as participated in the Adamah Jewish Environmental Fellowship.
Mónica is a poet and fiction writer who loves language in all its forms and especially loves guiding young people in playing with words to discover the world and themselves. Things that matter very much to her: honesty, justice, transformation, creativity, healing, play, rich soil and rich souls. She is so excited to spend the summer exploring spirituality, environmental sustainability, and community with campers at Eden Village!
Know someone interested in working at Eden Village? Enjoy working with children and teens? We seek exceptional role models and educators to complete our summer staff team. Read about what it takes to succeed as an Eden Village staffer and view our available positions.
Grants for camp!
 One Happy Camper, up to $1,000 off
Many campers are eligible for non-need-based grants up to $1,000 towards their camp tuition! After registering for Eden Village, you can apply for this grant through onehappycamper.org. Call us with questions! We aim to make camp accessible to as many campers as possible regardless of ability to pay. Other opportunities are also available for financial aid!
Attention Russian-speaking and Israeli-American Families...
We have special grants to bring your campers to Eden Village. Call us at 877-397-3336!
SPRING EVENTS
Join the Jewish Farm School and Eden Village Camp for select Sundays. Offerings include 2nd Sunday Family Farm Days, two-hour and full-day workshops, and four-day intensives. All programs take place at Eden Village Camp in Putnam Valley, NY, except our new Urban Eden program in New York City. First timers to Eden Village Camp receive a program discount!
Maple Sugaring
Sundays: March 20th or March 27th
Second Sundays (Family Farm Days)
Sundays: April 10th, May 8th, June 12th
Avodat Hasadeh (Volunteering on the Farm)
Sundays: April 10th, May 8th, 15th & 22nd, June 19th
Backyard Chickens
Sundays: April 10th
Organic Gardening Techniques
Sunday, May 1st
Special Program: Urban Eden
Sundays: May 1st, May 15th; June 5th
Composting
Sunday, May 8th
B’nai Mitzvah Day
Sunday, May 15th
Beekeeping 101
Sunday, June 5th
Natural Building & Herbal Medicine
Sunday, June 12th
Jewish Farm School Intensive
Monday, June 13th – Thursday, June 16th |
Download a double-sided flier or an 11x17" poster of our Spring Events to put on your fridge or share with friends!
Times, details, and prices available at JewishFarmSchool.org/edenvillage. |
Family Camp
 May 27-30 and Aug. 25-28
Vacation in Eden! Our Family Camp offers families a taste of our core program: outstanding super-local organic food, farming, animal care, swimming, boating, hiking, yoga, meditation, creative arts, a zero-waste goal, discovering wild edible & medicinal plants, coming together in joyful and restful Shabbat celebration, and more. Family Camp is geared toward families with children of camp age or a few years younger. We'd love to share the experience with you! For more info and to register, call 877-397-3336 or visit edenvillagecamp.org/familycamp
The Anafim Summer Internship
For rising high school seniors
A special nine-week staff development program for rising high school seniors, bridging the transition from camper to staff member at Eden Village. Anafim Interns will learn and practice Jewish environmental education, engage with ancient Jewish agriculture, cut their teeth in our pioneering organic kitchen, and contribute meaningfully to helping camp run. For more information check out our staff page.
If you're currently in 12th grade or on a gap year, check out our Anafim Spring Farm Internship this May!
 Eden Village On the Road
Upcoming Free Events:
- March 20 from 12-3p, Brooklyn, NY: Beth Elohim Purim Justice Carnival! Come get your all-organic bike-blended smoothie!
- March 27 at 6pm, 746 Woodridge Lane, Glencoe, IL: Parlor Meeting! RSVP to Vivian at 877-397-3336 or vivian@edenvillagecamp.org.
- March 30 at 7:30pm, 14 Broad St, Salem, MA: Parlor Meeting! RSVP to Ellen at 617-899-2742.
 April 3 at 11am, Bergen County, NJ: Our Director, Yoni, teaches Introduction to Permaculture at Temple Sinai- April 4 at 7:30pm, Manhattan, NY: Eden Village presentation at Ansche Chesed, 251 West 100th Street.
- April 7 at 7:30pm, Amherst, MA: Potluck dinner and Parlor Meeting! For location, please RSVP to Joanna at clay.joanna@comcast.net.
- April 17, Washington Heights, NY: YWHA Green Fair
Would you like an Eden Village Camp director to visit you? Gather your friends, grab a calendar and email us at vivian@edenvillagecamp.org, or call 877-397-3336!
Dispatch from the Farm!
 Debra, our Farm Magician/Manager, is hard at work at Eden Village seeding, sugar mapling, and preparing for the Spring. In addition to our new fluffy, friendly sheep and gentle honey-making bees, here are more exciting Farm developments:
- Growing melons right on the floor of our FINISHED GREENHOUSE
- A new village-sized COB OVEN for baking our own challah outside
- A GRAPE ARBOR
- Our own grains: wheat, spelt, barley to harvest, seed save, thresh and winnow, grind into flour, and bake with
- Shitake and oyster mushroom logs
- 7 new varieties of laying hens
- Strawberries and rhubarb patch in the teaching gardens
- Demonstration 3-bay compost bins and a more thorough composting program
- Shabbat flower garden for making bouquets for tables on Shabbat
- Expanded peah (corner) gardens and food justice programs
- More perennial flower beautification....
Retreat Rentals
Our facility is now available on a limited basis for mission-related groups, schools, and organizations as retreat rental space in the Spring and Fall. Experience organic, vegetarian meals and custom-built farm education programs with the Jewish Farm School. Dates are available from May to late June and September through October. For more information, call or email andrew@edenvillagecamp.org
An exciting partner opportunity
PJ Library sends families Jewish children’s books for free or very low cost! They also may offer support for some campers next summer, for their members who register before September of this year. Sign up at http://www.pjlibrary.org.
Your generosity and support keeps our vision alive and strong! Thank You. |
