Alternative Break Hillel Staff and Participant Information

Alternative Breaks will begin at 3:00pm on Sunday and end at 10:00am the following Sunday.
Hillel Staff will have a conference call pre-trip with Simcha, JFS Group Leaders and the Host Farmer.
All food will be vegetartian and cooked on kosher dishess in a kashered kitchen
JFS will pick the group up from the airport or bus station and take the group to and from the farm. Or the students will be driving themselves depending on the trip
Tierra Miguel Travel: San Diego Airport
Oz Farm Travel: San Fransico International Airport
Ithaca: Greyhound Bus, Ithaca Tompkins Airport or groups find their way in their own vehicles or rented Hillel van.

Sample Schedule

Sunday-Arrival

• 2:00 PM Arrival and move-in,

3:00 PM JFS orientation and more

• 6:00 PM: Dinner

• 7:15 PM: Opening Session on Judaism and Sustainability and evening program

• 10:00 PM: lila tov

Monday

• 7:30-8:15: Yoga/Shacarit

• 8:15-9:00: Breakfast

• 9:00-12:00 Work Block 1 (Farm Walk with Introduction to region and work projects)

• 12:00-1:00 Lunch

• 1:00-4:00 Work Block 2

• 4:00-6:30 Free Time

• 6:30-7:30 Dinner

• 7:30 evening program (Food Justice)

Tuesday

• 7:30-8:15: Yoga/Shacarit

• 8:15-9:00 Breakfast

• 9:00-12:30 Work Block 3

• 12:30-1:30 Lunch

• 1:30-4:00 Work Block 4

• 4:00-6:30 Free time and dinner prep

• 6:30 Dinner

• 8:00-9:15 Education Session (kraut and craft making)

Wednesday

• 7:30-8:15: Yoga/Shacarit

• 8:15-9:00 Breakfast

• 9:00-12:30 Work Block 3

• 12:30-2:00 Lunch

• 2:00-5:00 Work Block 4

• 5:00-6:30 Free time

• 6:30 Dinner

• 8:00-9:15 Education Session (Seeds and Food Security)

Thursday

• 7:30-8:15: Yoga/Shacarit

• 8:15-9:00 Breakfast

• 9:00-12:30 Work Block 3

• 12:30-2:00 Lunch

• 2:00-5:00 Work Block 4

• 5:00-6:30 Free time

• 6:30 Dinner

• 8:00-9:15 Education Session (Jewish Agricultural Laws)

Friday

• 7:30-8:15: Yoga/Shacarit

• 8:15-9:00 Breakfast

• 9:00-12:00 Work Block 3

• 12:30-2:00 Lunch

• 2:00-3:00 Special class

• 3:00-6:45 Shabbat Prep

• 6:45 Kabbalat Shabbat

• 8:00 Dinner and Oneg/Evening Program

Shabbat

• 7:30-9:00 Breakfast available

• 9:30 Shabbat Morning

• 12:30 Lunch/Kiddush

• Free Time

• 6:00 Seudat Shlishit w/some teachings

• 8:00 Havdallah and Evening Activity

• Pack to go home

Sunday

• 7:00–7:45 AM Breakfast and load vans

• 7:45-8:15 Closing Circle

• 8:15 Leave for airport

Tierra Miguel Farm Information:

Tierra Miguel Farm is excited to welcome the JFS ASB program for another year of sustainable agriculture immersion. A lot has happened at the farm in the past year. We have recently started a farmer training program with Somali Bantu refugees. We will allow our CCOF organic certification to expire in early 2010 as we move toward a Demeter Biodynamic certification. The student garden, started last spring, has been a great learning space and food producing area for our education program. The earthen oven is very popular during community events, especially for baking sourdough bread and pizzas piled high with farm fresh veggies.

This spring we are looking forward to the influx of youthful vigor during the ASB to help us plant a food-producing windbreak. We also have plans for a small vineyard. We would also like to continue building our outdoor kitchen, adding on to the earthen oven. March is a great time of the year in Pauma Valley. The rejuvenating winter rains will have ceased, wildflowers blooming all over the farm and winter and spring crop seasons overlapping. We will be reaching the end of winter root veggies and greens while strawberries will just be ripening, so there will be plenty of planting, weeding, harvesting and CSA packing to be done. Many more projects will be identified in the coming months. There is always something that needs to be done!

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