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The Kavanah Garden is the new educational organic garden at the Lebovic Jewish Community Campus in Vaughan . Our mission is to actively engage community members in Tikkun Olam, repairing the world, by offering programs that are hands-on, transformative, and rooted in Jewish ecological and agricultural wisdom.
Since opening our gates in April 2009 , we have :
Built a dynamic and engaging garden space, while honouring the Jewish ethic of Bal Tashchit (not being wasteful). Over 200 volunteers have helped vision, develop, and create the Kavanah Garden this season, logging over 1300 volunteer hours.
April 2009
July 2009
Top left: We built our composting centre out of discarded skids from the housing development just south of the garden. Top right: We built a rain water catchment system out of reused olive drums. Bottom: Painted lid of one of the composters. “This is the way of the righteous, that nothing, not even a mustard seed, should be wasted.”
Top row: Hockey stick bean trellis, toilet bowl planter, potatoes growing in car tires. Bottom: Our outdoor classroom is made up of logs taken from an old hemlock tree that came down on Dufferin Street in a storm this spring. The City of Vaughan’s Forestry Department graciously cut
Kavanah Garden Apprentices This year, five young adults apprenticed at the Kavanah Garden. In addition to volunteering in the garden, the apprenticeship team participated in limmudimabout Jewish environmental and agricultural themes, field trips to other farms and projects, and workshops on organic gardening practices and sustainable living. As well, apprentices assisted with school and community programs, and were integrally involved in the visioning and building of the garden itself.
Apprentices Tamara and Ron help construct our Magen David raised bed, which we later planted with native flowers to attract pollinators and other beneficial insects to the garden.
Since opening our gates in April 2009 , we have :
Hosted over 1400 community members at our programs, events, and workshops. The following schools, synagogues, and community organizations have -Leo Baeck the Hebrew Day School (North Campus ) visited Kavanah Garden this season : -Leo Baeck Hebrew Day School (South Campus) -Associated Hebrew Day School (Poslun Campus) -United Synagogue Day School (Bathurst Campus) -United Synagogue Day School (Bayview Campus) -Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School -Habonim Hebrew School -Beth Torah Hebrew School -Beit Rayim Synagogue -Beth Tikvah Synagogue -Kehillat Shaarei Torah -Temple Emanu-El -Temple Har Zion -Shaar Shalom Synagogue -Birthright Alumni Leaders -Hillel at York University -Regional Jewish Communities of Ontario -Jewish Immigrant Aid Services -Impact Toronto – One Hot Day -D.A.N.I.
Community Volunteer Day
Students from Regional Jewish Communities of
Young adults from D.A.N.I., a community organization that works with individuals who are experiencing physical and/or cognitive challenges.
Children explore the garden at our Community Festival.
SK students from Leo Baeck help harvest Atomic Red Carrots this fall, which they remembered planting as JK students in the spring.
Since opening our gates in April 2009 , we have :
Provided 58 families with fresh, local, organically grown produce through the Tikkun Adamah Community Supported Agriculture Program, in partnership with the Cutting Veg Farm.
Farmer Daniel Hoffmann
A volunteer shows off the CSA’s spring
Since opening our gates in April 2009 , we have :
Produced over 400 pounds of fresh, local, organically grown produce for tzedakah. Produce has been donated to Ve’Ahavta, United Chesed, Scott Mission, Native Women’s Centre and to individual community members in need.
Since opening our gates in April 2009 , we have :
Strengthened our individual and collective Jewish identity by exploring Jewish environmental ethics, Jewish agricultural laws, and Jewish holidays and lifecycle events in real and meaningful ways.
Demonstrating the Jewish agricultural law of Sh’nat shmitah.
Left: Setting up our solar oven in honour of Birkat HaChamah. Below: Affixing our mezuzah after studying the Shema together.
Celebrating an alternative Bat Mitzvah at the garden. For her Bat Mitzvah, Iris spent the winter studying Jewish environmental texts with Risa Alyson Strauss (Kavanah Garden Program Director). In the spring and summer, Iris volunteered at the garden, bringing her artistic interpretation to many of its spaces and projects. In the fall, Iris’ learning culminated with a garden celebration where she delivered her d’var torah, sharing what she will take away from her year of study and explaining her
Celebrating the harvest festival of Sukkot.
The walls of our sukkahwere dyed with natural dyes made by students using materials found in the garden and ravine area. Over 50 community members gathered for a vegetarian potluck dinner in the sukkah where we sang, studied, and celebrated the harvest together.
Since opening our gates in April 2009 , people have said some really lovely things about the Kavanah Garden :
“Thanks again for the trip, it stood out in my mind as the best trip I've taken in over 20 years of teaching !!! I look forward to coming back in the future.” -Rhonda Schlanger , Leo Baeck SK Teacher “Bringing our Bnei Mitzvah students to the Kavanah Garden was the perfect blend of hands - on volunteering and Jewish thought. The students were meaningfully engaged as they took joy in feeling, building and experiencing our people’s rich history of environmentalism. Risa and her volunteer facilitators were wonderfully kind and knowledgeable. Her session regarding Jewish environmental practice challenged them to think about how to adapt values into their daily lives . The students left with dirt on their hands, smiles on their faces and a new sense of citizenship.” -Danny Richmond , Habonim Congregation Bnei Mitzvah Teacher
“Thank you so much for the experience of being part of the [ Tikkun Adamah ] CSA . Last night, with the oregano from the [Kavanah] Garden and the scapes from the farm added to the marinara, and the salad mix, cabbages, radishes and onions from Daniel's farm for our salad, my family had the best pizza we ever made thus far, and a salad that even my two year old couldn't stop eating. Our whole house smells like garlic from all the processing of the scapes, and our table has (wild)flowers for Shabbat for the first time in a LONG time. We are very appreciative . Can't wait until next week......” -Galia and Kfir Fisher, Tikkun Adamah CSA members “After delivering the produce to the very needy on Thursday, I feel I have to tell you what a mitzvah you are performing . The families I delivered to are living in abject poverty and have great need for assistance. I was so impressed by what you and your friends are doing. Yasher Koach. I will be happy to make a delivery again in August.” -Cheryl Levick, Tikkun Adamah CSA member and volunteer tzedakah driver
“This summer was the summer of learning for me. Just being present at the garden and listening to others speak about Judaism, agriculture, the environment and seeing people engage with the soil and plants provided me with much knowledge. In my past, I often found it hard to bring meaningful Judaism into my daily life but through our Jewish agriculture sessions and seeing your interpretation of Jewish practices , I was introduced to a very desirable and applicable Judaism.” -Tamara Green, Kavanah Garden Apprentice
Since opening our gates in April 2009 , we also accomplished a lot outside of the garden .
Jewish Agricultural Law 101 Text Study
Jam Making Workshop
We hosted 8 informal study sessions and workshops attended by over 40 young adults, in community
We designed a blog for the garden, which received over 1500 hits in just four months.
We sent out Kavanah Garden Updates in Torat HaTeva’s monthly enewsletter, which is read by over 700 community members.
We were featured in 5 articles in local newspapers, including The Canadian Jewish News, Shalom Toronto, and Vaughan Today.
Article featured in Shalom Toronto on Thursday, October 29th , 2009.
Kavanah Garden 2009 Budget Expenditures
Income/Revenue
Administration $1 750
Donations & Sales $1 000
Supplies &Materials $14 750 Staffing $41 500
Total : $58 000 * Staffing – 1 Program Director Supplies & Materials – Greenhouse, garden sheds, gardening tools and supplies, program materials, etc. Administration – Cell phone, photocopying, etc. *Covered by grant funding.
Tikkun Adamah CSA Membership $2 000
Total : $9 000
Thank you !!! We are so grateful for the incredible show of support we have received from our community in the Kavanah Garden’s first season! We look forward to growing (figuratively and literally!) with you in the future. Thank you to our granting agencies:
Thank you to our community partners:
Thank you to the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and the Lebovic Jewish Community Campus for allowing us use of their land to build the Kavanah Garden. The Kavanah Garden is a program of the Jewish Nature Centre of Canada: Torat HaTeva
The Kavanah Garden is the new educational organic garden at the Lebovic Jewish Community Campus in Vaughan . Our mission is to actively engage community members in Tikkun Olam, repairing the world, by offering programs that are hands-on, transformative, and rooted in Jewish ecological and agricultural wisdom.
Since opening our gates in April 2009 , we have :
Built a dynamic and engaging garden space, while honouring the Jewish ethic of Bal Tashchit (not being wasteful). Over 200 volunteers have helped vision, develop, and create the Kavanah Garden this season, logging over 1300 volunteer hours.
April 2009
July 2009
Top left: We built our composting centre out of discarded skids from the housing development just south of the garden. Top right: We built a rain water catchment system out of reused olive drums. Bottom: Painted lid of one of the composters. “This is the way of the righteous, that nothing, not even a mustard seed, should be wasted.”
Top row: Hockey stick bean trellis, toilet bowl planter, potatoes growing in car tires. Bottom: Our outdoor classroom is made up of logs taken from an old hemlock tree that came down on Dufferin Street in a storm this spring. The City of Vaughan’s Forestry Department graciously cut
Kavanah Garden Apprentices This year, five young adults apprenticed at the Kavanah Garden. In addition to volunteering in the garden, the apprenticeship team participated in limmudimabout Jewish environmental and agricultural themes, field trips to other farms and projects, and workshops on organic gardening practices and sustainable living. As well, apprentices assisted with school and community programs, and were integrally involved in the visioning and building of the garden itself.
Apprentices Tamara and Ron help construct our Magen David raised bed, which we later planted with native flowers to attract pollinators and other beneficial insects to the garden.
Since opening our gates in April 2009 , we have :
Hosted over 1400 community members at our programs, events, and workshops. The following schools, synagogues, and community organizations have -Leo Baeck the Hebrew Day School (North Campus ) visited Kavanah Garden this season : -Leo Baeck Hebrew Day School (South Campus) -Associated Hebrew Day School (Poslun Campus) -United Synagogue Day School (Bathurst Campus) -United Synagogue Day School (Bayview Campus) -Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School -Habonim Hebrew School -Beth Torah Hebrew School -Beit Rayim Synagogue -Beth Tikvah Synagogue -Kehillat Shaarei Torah -Temple Emanu-El -Temple Har Zion -Shaar Shalom Synagogue -Birthright Alumni Leaders -Hillel at York University -Regional Jewish Communities of Ontario -Jewish Immigrant Aid Services -Impact Toronto – One Hot Day -D.A.N.I.
Community Volunteer Day
Students from Regional Jewish Communities of
Young adults from D.A.N.I., a community organization that works with individuals who are experiencing physical and/or cognitive challenges.
Children explore the garden at our Community Festival.
SK students from Leo Baeck help harvest Atomic Red Carrots this fall, which they remembered planting as JK students in the spring.
Since opening our gates in April 2009 , we have :
Provided 58 families with fresh, local, organically grown produce through the Tikkun Adamah Community Supported Agriculture Program, in partnership with the Cutting Veg Farm.
Farmer Daniel Hoffmann
A volunteer shows off the CSA’s spring
Since opening our gates in April 2009 , we have :
Produced over 400 pounds of fresh, local, organically grown produce for tzedakah. Produce has been donated to Ve’Ahavta, United Chesed, Scott Mission, Native Women’s Centre and to individual community members in need.
Since opening our gates in April 2009 , we have :
Strengthened our individual and collective Jewish identity by exploring Jewish environmental ethics, Jewish agricultural laws, and Jewish holidays and lifecycle events in real and meaningful ways.
Demonstrating the Jewish agricultural law of Sh’nat shmitah.
Left: Setting up our solar oven in honour of Birkat HaChamah. Below: Affixing our mezuzah after studying the Shema together.
Celebrating an alternative Bat Mitzvah at the garden. For her Bat Mitzvah, Iris spent the winter studying Jewish environmental texts with Risa Alyson Strauss (Kavanah Garden Program Director). In the spring and summer, Iris volunteered at the garden, bringing her artistic interpretation to many of its spaces and projects. In the fall, Iris’ learning culminated with a garden celebration where she delivered her d’var torah, sharing what she will take away from her year of study and explaining her
Celebrating the harvest festival of Sukkot.
The walls of our sukkahwere dyed with natural dyes made by students using materials found in the garden and ravine area. Over 50 community members gathered for a vegetarian potluck dinner in the sukkah where we sang, studied, and celebrated the harvest together.
Since opening our gates in April 2009 , people have said some really lovely things about the Kavanah Garden :
“Thanks again for the trip, it stood out in my mind as the best trip I've taken in over 20 years of teaching !!! I look forward to coming back in the future.” -Rhonda Schlanger , Leo Baeck SK Teacher “Bringing our Bnei Mitzvah students to the Kavanah Garden was the perfect blend of hands - on volunteering and Jewish thought. The students were meaningfully engaged as they took joy in feeling, building and experiencing our people’s rich history of environmentalism. Risa and her volunteer facilitators were wonderfully kind and knowledgeable. Her session regarding Jewish environmental practice challenged them to think about how to adapt values into their daily lives . The students left with dirt on their hands, smiles on their faces and a new sense of citizenship.” -Danny Richmond , Habonim Congregation Bnei Mitzvah Teacher
“Thank you so much for the experience of being part of the [ Tikkun Adamah ] CSA . Last night, with the oregano from the [Kavanah] Garden and the scapes from the farm added to the marinara, and the salad mix, cabbages, radishes and onions from Daniel's farm for our salad, my family had the best pizza we ever made thus far, and a salad that even my two year old couldn't stop eating. Our whole house smells like garlic from all the processing of the scapes, and our table has (wild)flowers for Shabbat for the first time in a LONG time. We are very appreciative . Can't wait until next week......” -Galia and Kfir Fisher, Tikkun Adamah CSA members “After delivering the produce to the very needy on Thursday, I feel I have to tell you what a mitzvah you are performing . The families I delivered to are living in abject poverty and have great need for assistance. I was so impressed by what you and your friends are doing. Yasher Koach. I will be happy to make a delivery again in August.” -Cheryl Levick, Tikkun Adamah CSA member and volunteer tzedakah driver
“This summer was the summer of learning for me. Just being present at the garden and listening to others speak about Judaism, agriculture, the environment and seeing people engage with the soil and plants provided me with much knowledge. In my past, I often found it hard to bring meaningful Judaism into my daily life but through our Jewish agriculture sessions and seeing your interpretation of Jewish practices , I was introduced to a very desirable and applicable Judaism.” -Tamara Green, Kavanah Garden Apprentice
Since opening our gates in April 2009 , we also accomplished a lot outside of the garden .
Jewish Agricultural Law 101 Text Study
Jam Making Workshop
We hosted 8 informal study sessions and workshops attended by over 40 young adults, in community
We designed a blog for the garden, which received over 1500 hits in just four months.
We sent out Kavanah Garden Updates in Torat HaTeva’s monthly enewsletter, which is read by over 700 community members.
We were featured in 5 articles in local newspapers, including The Canadian Jewish News, Shalom Toronto, and Vaughan Today.
Article featured in Shalom Toronto on Thursday, October 29th , 2009.
Kavanah Garden 2009 Budget Expenditures
Income/Revenue
Administration $1 750
Donations & Sales $1 000
Supplies &Materials $14 750 Staffing $41 500
Total : $58 000 * Staffing – 1 Program Director Supplies & Materials – Greenhouse, garden sheds, gardening tools and supplies, program materials, etc. Administration – Cell phone, photocopying, etc. *Covered by grant funding.
Tikkun Adamah CSA Membership $2 000
Total : $9 000
Thank you !!! We are so grateful for the incredible show of support we have received from our community in the Kavanah Garden’s first season! We look forward to growing (figuratively and literally!) with you in the future. Thank you to our granting agencies:
Thank you to our community partners:
Thank you to the UJA Federation of Greater Toronto and the Lebovic Jewish Community Campus for allowing us use of their land to build the Kavanah Garden. The Kavanah Garden is a program of the Jewish Nature Centre of Canada: Torat HaTeva
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