Upcoming Events
We welcome you to join us on the Farm seven days a week from sunrise to sunset. During peak seasons, our Farm is in use by multiple groups every day. You may find outdoor classes being held, community members resting and harvesting, volunteers hard at work, or even religious observances and rituals taking place. We invite you to share in this land and space.
Pick-Your-Own is sunrise to sunset May through October. Come harvest with us!
All events listed below are open to the public. Please check each event’s details to see if registration is required.
Dig Your Own Paw Paw
Come out to the sadeh, Abundance Farm’s satellite field, to dig up your own pawpaw seedlings to plant at home. We have a limited number available. Please register to take advantage of this opportunity! Seedlings will be available on a sliding scale.
Registration Coming Soon
Farm to Seder
Celebrate Pesach on Abundance Farm. Attendees will cycle through four stations: matzah baking in a cob oven, sweet charoset making, maror (bitter herb) tasting, and a Pesach-themed craft!
Registration required.
*The matzah will not be kosher for Passover.
Chametz Burn
Burn your Chametz
Join us around the fire on Abundance Farm for this community ritual of seasonal renewal. Please bring only small pieces or symbolic crumbs of the last remaining chametz in your home.
Spring Seed Swap
Visit us to receive free radish, pea, and other spring seeds from the Farm, as well as seeds of all kinds from local gardeners. No registration is required, although participation in the Shared Abundance Gardens program is encouraged.
We invite you to bring seeds of your own to swap and share.
Blessing of the Trees
Each spring, it is the custom to offer a special blessing over blossoming fruit trees. This remarkable ritual invites us to reflect on the extraordinary abundance and beauty of nature—and, in particular, on the special qualities of fruit trees. Join us in the orchard located outside of the front gates of Abundance Farm’s garden beds.
Spring Work Party
Join us for a morning of work projects for people of all ages to help prepare our Farm for the growing season! This is a celebration of earth, food, and community that is not to be missed. There will also be activities available for young children, and, because it is Mother’s Day, we will have ways to celebrate the mothers who join us. All are welcome!
Most work projects require standing, lifting, and/or bending, but there are seated work options available.
We recommend arriving in sturdy clothes that you can get dirty, and coming equipped with gloves and gardening tools you own.
Work projects go from 9:30 to noon, followed by lunch.
Registration Required: Coming Soon
Shared Abundance Gardens Distribution Day
Interested in receiving a beautiful, overflowing all-in-one garden kit? This includes: vegetable and herb seedlings, some seeds, a limited amount of compost (up to six 5-gallon buckets), soil for container gardeners in pots, wood chips, and access to community gatherings at Abundance Farm, as well as Ask-A-Farmer events during our Community Harvest Hours. Sign up for Shared Abundance Gardens to take part in this program!
Registration Required: Coming Soon
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours are a special time each Wednesday afternoon (May-October) when we gather on the Farm to be in community with each other and the land. Come to harvest, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, share your own home-grown-goodies, or pick community members’ brains about caring for your own garden.
Summer Shefa Begins
שפע, or Shefa - Hebrew for Abundance – is a paid teen educational internship centered on meaningful work outside, community building and Jewish Land Justice values. A Jewish background is not required! In fact, we enthusiastically welcome and encourage people of all cultures to participate and contribute their perspectives.
Tu B’Av Love Songs Concert & Picnic
Join us on the full moon of Av to celebrate Tu B’Av, the holiday of love and the grape harvest. We’ll sing and dance to soften our hearts during the of mourning. You’re invited to wear white (as is custom) and to bring a picnic to enjoy afterwards. Light refreshments will be served.
Tu B'Av, the 15th of the Hebrew month of Av, is a joyful minor Jewish holiday that many people don't know about! Tu B'Av celebrates love, unity, and new beginnings. In ancient times, its observance included matchmaking events in orchards and vineyards. Today, it's often likened to a Jewish Valentine’s Day, symbolizing hope, reconciliation, and the power of love and connection in Jewish tradition.
Registration Required: Coming Soon
Pickle Party
For thousands of years, our ancestors have been preserving food using the craft and science of fermentation. In this workshop, we will demystify the pickling process and impart the skills to do your own fermentations at home. Come harvest a plethora of pickle-able produce from the Farm and stuff a jar full of pickles to take home! Bring your own glass jar.
Registration Required: Coming Soon
Tu Bishvat Celebration
Celebrate Tu Bishvat by getting to know some of the trees at CBI and Abundance Farm. Through guided tours of our campus and its surroundings, discover the ecology of our local trees, learn how to identify trees in the wintertime, and see a maple tree tapping demonstration. After the tree walks, we'll gather in the CBI social hall for a delicious communal pancake breakfast with plenty of maple syrup. Appropriate for all ages.
Virtual Open House
This online gathering is your chance to “step onto the farm” from wherever you are and hear from Farmers Nat and Avi about the plants, people, and community that have been flourishing this year.
Community Harvest Hours & Volunteer Appreciation!
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Community Harvest Hours & Garlic Seed Distrobution For Shared Abundance Gardeners
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Sukkot Harvest Festival
We welcome everyone to this festive, family-friendly event that honors Sukkot’s themes of hospitality, harvest, and connection to the land. In the spirit of sharing abundance, we invite you to bring a veggie to contribute to our stone soup potluck, a communal style of eating around an open fire.
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Rosh Hashanah Winter Squash Harvest
Pumpkins and squash are a traditional Rosh Hashana food in many communities, especially among Mizrachi and Sephardi Jews. Come pick your own free squash or pumpkin to use for a Rosh Hashana seder or just to use in your favorite festive recipe!
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Recipe Card Potluck
Everyone has a dish that is important to their family, culture, or personal story. We invite you to prepare a beverage or dish that is meaningful to you, using an ingredient grown on Abundance Farm, and bring it to share with your community—along with your recipe and story about the dish's significance to you.
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Share Your Recipes & Food Stories With The Hampshire County Food Policy Council
Representatives from the Hampshire County Food Policy Council will be visiting Abundance Farm to facilitate a community oral storytelling circle and gather recipes for our upcoming Abundance Farm Community Recipe Book. Please share with us a recipe for something you like to make using ingredients on Abundance Farm, and a story on your connection to that food.
At Abundance Farm, we ground in Jewish values to connect people with food, the land, their community, and their own faith traditions. This cookbook, made in collaboration with the Hampshire County Food Policy Council, is a further expression of the connection between people, food, land, and stories that happens on Abundance Farm.
You may also submit your story online, or read more about our project, here >>
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Fun With Flowers Harvest & Bouquet Workshop
Learn how to harvest flowers properly and the basics of making bouquets with both fresh and dried flowers. Take home your own bouquet at the end!
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Love Songs for Tu B’Av: A Song Circle and Celebration with Molly Bajgot
Join us on the full moon of Av to celebrate Tu B’Av: the holiday of love and the grape harvest.
Share Your Recipes & Food Stories With The Hampshire County Food Policy Council
Representatives from the Hampshire County Food Policy Council will be visiting Abundance Farm to gather oral stories and recipes for our upcoming Abundance Farm Community Recipe Book. Please share with us a recipe for something you like to make using ingredients on Abundance Farm, and a story on your connection to that food.
At Abundance Farm, we ground in Jewish values to connect people with food, the land, their community, and their own faith traditions. This cookbook, made in collaboration with the Hampshire County Food Policy Council, is a further expression of the connection between people, food, land, and stories that happens on Abundance Farm.
You may also submit your story online, or read more about our project, here >>
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Pickle Party
Come harvest a plethora of pickle-able produce and learn how to make both "quick" pickles and fermented pickles to take home.
Share Your Recipes & Food Stories With The Hampshire County Food Policy Council
Representatives from the Hampshire County Food Policy Council will be visiting Abundance Farm to gather oral stories and recipes for our upcoming Abundance Farm Community Recipe Book. Please share with us a recipe for something you like to make using ingredients on Abundance Farm, and a story on your connection to that food.
At Abundance Farm, we ground in Jewish values to connect people with food, the land, their community, and their own faith traditions. This cookbook, made in collaboration with the Hampshire County Food Policy Council, is a further expression of the connection between people, food, land, and stories that happens on Abundance Farm.
You may also submit your story online, or read more about our project, here >>
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Herb Preservation Workshop
Learn how to harvest herbs and process them properly in order to make teas, tinctures, and more.
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.
Hadvdalah Song Circle On The Farm
Sing, snack, and schmooze together. Havdalah is a Jewish ritual marking the end of the sacred time of Shabbat (the weekly traditional day of rest), and creates a joyful moment of preparation and transition into the week ahead. We invite you to join us in the farm and to consider how you can mark moments of transition in your life to bring rejuvenation and meaning. Registration Requested »
Community Harvest Hours
Community Harvest Hours is a special time each week when we gather to support each other. Come to get harvest tips, ask for advice on what to cook with your Farm produce, join our crew of volunteers, harvest from the farm, or pick Farmer Nat's brain about caring for your own garden.