Our Partners

The Adva Network is grateful for the guidance and cooperation of its partner organizations. These organizations provide community and structure as well as physical sites and resources. The mutually beneficial relationship between Adva and its partners means that as each develops, the other becomes stronger. May we and our partners go from strength to strength and help invigorate the greater Jewish environmental community with our talents and enthusiasm.

Hazon

The word hazon is Hebrew for "vision." Our vision is to create a healthier and more sustainable Jewish community -- as a step towards a healthier and more sustainable world for all. Our vision is of a renewed Jewish community: one that is rooted in Jewish tradition, engaged with the world around us, radically inclusive, passionate and creative.

Eden Village Camp

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.

Jewish Farm School

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.

Kayam Farm
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.

Kavanah Garden
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. For more information, visit our website www.kavanahgarden.org.