About the Farm

Adamah is a diversified, regenerative farm at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Connecticut. Our mission is to provide healthy food to our neighbors, to build community and connection to land through educational programming, and to farm in harmony with the ecosystem.

We raise about three acres of mixed vegetables that are distributed through our CSA program, our Food Access Fund, and Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center's farm to table dining. Our veggie production focuses on growing practices that prioritize soil and ecosystem health through cover cropping, reduced tillage, composting, encouraging habitat for biodiversity, and farming with the seasons.

In addition to the produce available through our CSA, the farm also includes a handful of fruit trees, berry brambles, laying hens, goats, sheep, and greenhouses. We make compost out of food scraps from the local community and the retreat center. In 2020, we planted about ten acres of chestnut agroforestry where we graze the animals and imagine a future where the food we eat comes from shade-producing, carbon-sequestering trees. In the spring we tap maple trees to make syrup, in the summer we grow flowers, and in the fall we make sauerkraut- all the products of which are available for sale at CSA pickups.

All of this bounty is maintained by young adults in our residential educational program called the Adamah Fellowship. Fellows spend three months on the farm, either in the summer or fall, experiencing land- based Jewish community. We also host short-term educational programs for retreat guests and local neighbors throughout the year including tours, classes, and volunteer days.

Learn more about everything we do, how, and why at the links below!

Links to Learn More:

Adamah's Growing Practices

Compost at Adamah

Agroforesty at Adamah

Maple Syrup at Adamah

Cover Cropping at Adamah

Tillage at Adamah

Seedlings at Adamah

Animals at Adamah

Eating Seasonally in northwest Connecticut

What do you mean by a Jewish Farm?

Isabella Freedman and Adamah Farm are programs of the national Jewish environmental organization Adamah.