Jewish Farms 2

Jewish Farms 2

Innovations in Jewish Life Collections

2023

Gregg Drinkwater, Hilary Kalisman, Samira Mehta, Maggie Rosenau

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At the Milk and Honey Farm at the Boulder Jewish Community Center, volunteers and JCC staff raise goats, chickens, and bees, while also growing organic vegetables and flowers. The 2.5-acre farm also hosts educational events, intergenerational farm dinners, gardening workshops and other programs.

Produce from the farm is donated to community groups. Inspired by the Jewish farming movement, Milk and Honey began as an egg co-op, focused on organic, intentional, and sustainable community-oriented egg production rooted in Jewish tradition.

Goats joined the farm initially to help deal with weeds and unused vegetation, eventually becoming a goat-milk co-op. After much effort navigating details around city codes, well water access, and recruiting a cohort of volunteers, in summer 2011, the farms three initial goats arrived, named Clover, Alfalfa, and Thistle. Milk and Honey launched in its current iteration at the Boulder JCC in 2016 and is supported by over 120 volunteers.