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Youth Camps and Programs at Urban Adamah include hands-on farm activities such as organic farming, composting, food preparation, and working on the farm from seed to harvest. The programs also include story, ritual, song, holiday celebrations, Jewish learning, progressive Jewish living and learning, musical performances, mindfulness practice, meditation, social justice training, leadership training, community building, and volunteering at other food access and urban garden organizations.
• Schedule: Includes a three-month residential leadership program
Urban Adamah was founded in 2010 as the first urban Jewish community farm in the United States. Its mission is to build a more loving, just, and sustainable world by grounding and connecting people to themselves, to others, and to the natural world through farm-based, community building experiences that integrate Jewish tradition, mindfulness, sustainable agriculture, and social action. The organization offers year-round youth camps and programs, a three-month residential leadership fellowship for adults ages 21–31, and a weekly Free-Farm Stand that opened in the summer of 2012. The summer camp began with 30 campers in 2011. More than 10,000 people annually participate in summer camp programs, festival and Shabbat celebrations, workshops, trainings, after-school programs, private celebrations, and the young adult fellowship.
The work of every program participant who works on the farm is oriented towards providing food for those in the community most in need, and Urban Adamah has grown and distributed more than 300,000 pounds of produce and eggs. Fellows spend one day a week volunteering at other food access and urban garden organizations, and Urban Adamah has contributed to food security in the East Bay. More than 10,000 people visit annually from as far north as Napa and as far south as Los Gatos, and the pedagogical model is being replicated in communities around the globe.
Urban Adamah was founded by Adam Berman, who also founded the Adamah Fellowship at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center. Rich Robbins, CEO of Wareham Development, agreed to donate to Urban Adamah the use of an acre of undeveloped land on Parker Street in West Berkeley in its early years. The farm campus was originally designed for relocation, with an office trailer on wheels, growing beds on moveable pallets, and program and play structures designed for easy take-down and rebuild. The permanent campus includes a main farm and small gardens, animal pens for chickens and goats, a robust aquaponics greenhouse, two large tents for community gatherings and programs, a 30-foot yurt, a community kitchen, and bathrooms with showers. The campus features a 45 kw solar pv array large enough to generate 100% of the site’s electricity needs in a year, along with a large greywater system that cleans wastewater from showers and washing machines and delivers it to fruit trees and perennial crops.
Last updated May 11, 2026.
• Schedule: Includes a three-month residential leadership program
Urban Adamah was founded in 2010 as the first urban Jewish community farm in the United States. Its mission is to build a more loving, just, and sustainable world by grounding and connecting people to themselves, to others, and to the natural world through farm-based, community building experiences that integrate Jewish tradition, mindfulness, sustainable agriculture, and social action. The organization offers year-round youth camps and programs, a three-month residential leadership fellowship for adults ages 21–31, and a weekly Free-Farm Stand that opened in the summer of 2012. The summer camp began with 30 campers in 2011. More than 10,000 people annually participate in summer camp programs, festival and Shabbat celebrations, workshops, trainings, after-school programs, private celebrations, and the young adult fellowship.
The work of every program participant who works on the farm is oriented towards providing food for those in the community most in need, and Urban Adamah has grown and distributed more than 300,000 pounds of produce and eggs. Fellows spend one day a week volunteering at other food access and urban garden organizations, and Urban Adamah has contributed to food security in the East Bay. More than 10,000 people visit annually from as far north as Napa and as far south as Los Gatos, and the pedagogical model is being replicated in communities around the globe.
Urban Adamah was founded by Adam Berman, who also founded the Adamah Fellowship at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center. Rich Robbins, CEO of Wareham Development, agreed to donate to Urban Adamah the use of an acre of undeveloped land on Parker Street in West Berkeley in its early years. The farm campus was originally designed for relocation, with an office trailer on wheels, growing beds on moveable pallets, and program and play structures designed for easy take-down and rebuild. The permanent campus includes a main farm and small gardens, animal pens for chickens and goats, a robust aquaponics greenhouse, two large tents for community gatherings and programs, a 30-foot yurt, a community kitchen, and bathrooms with showers. The campus features a 45 kw solar pv array large enough to generate 100% of the site’s electricity needs in a year, along with a large greywater system that cleans wastewater from showers and washing machines and delivers it to fruit trees and perennial crops.
Last updated May 11, 2026.
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