Alumni Organizations
The Adva Network has spawned amazing individuals and organizations. As each develops, the other becomes stronger. May all our alumni go from strength to strength and help invigorate the greater Jewish environmental community with our talents and enthusiasm.
Putnam Valley, NY
Along with Jewish Farm School’s organic and educational farm, Eden Village Camp will have outstanding camp activities and programs including arts and crafts, music, swimming, boating, wilderness and much more, all on 250 acres of land, one hour north of New York City, right along the Appalachian trail.
The Jewish Farm School was formally established in 2005 and 
sprouted out of a shared vision by its founders to develop educational programming that would foster opportunities for Jews to reconnect with the processes of working the land and growing food. The shared vision consists of a dream of one-day establishing a school that would enroll students who are seeking alternative modes of education. In doing so, the learning would entail farming, animal husbandry, natural building and Jewish learning as well as achieve the necessary requirements for accreditation.
Reisterstown, MD
Kayam Farm is the most active Jewish educational farm in the country, serving close to 3,000 participants annually through field trips, volunteer opportunities, holiday celebrations, cooking classes, skills workshops, and more. The Kayam Summer Fellowship brings together talented Jewish farmer-educators from around the country to live communally, work on the farm, and teach at Camp Milldale, Baltimore’s JCC day camp. Several Kayam fellows have gone on to start similar Jewish educational gardens elsewhere. Kayam’s mission is to embody and inspire social and ecological responsibility by transforming our community through hands-on Jewish agricultural education.
Vaughan, Ontario
The Kavanah Garden is an educational organic garden that is planted, maintained, and harvested according to Jewish environmental and social values and Jewish agricultural laws. Established in 2009 at the Lebovic Jewish Community Campus in Vaughan, Ontario (just north of Toronto), the garden features organically grown vegetables, fruits, herbs, and wildflowers; greenhouse; compost demonstration site; solar oven; outdoor classroom; and naturalized spaces.
Wilderness Torah revitalizes Jewish life by 
reconnecting Jewish traditions to the cycles of nature. We facilitate individual spiritual growth, strengthen multi-generational community, and connect people to nature through land-based festivals, nature-based rites of passage, and sustainable life skills education. Our programs cultivate understanding of Judaism’s earth-based roots, inspire appreciation for Creation, and offer skills that empower participants to engage in Tikkun Olam by living sustainably in the modern world.
East Vancouver, Canada
Fresh Roots is committed to creating access to local, healthy, organically grown food in East Vancouver. By utilizing community backyards, we nurture future farmers to sow the seeds of a sustainable urban food system. We are committed to offering our community virtually zero carbon emissions food, freshly harvested, bike-trailer delivered, grown with East Van love, East Van compost, by local East Van farmers. We grow food in our neighborhood, for our neighborhood, by our neighborhood!