Eden in the News
Eden Village Camp in the News
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Eden Village in the Huffington Post
My visit this past week to Eden Village Camp, in Putnam County, was window into this age-old bond within a modern culture and timeless human occupation of working the land. It is the first Jewish overnight environmental camp for children, merging the movements to reintroduce nature into their technological fast-lane lives, discover and express concern for the environment, learn where food (especially healthy food) comes from – all while in a value rich program that celebrates Jewish traditions.
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“Farm-To-Table Ethos Grows At New Camp”
Daniel, a yarmulke-wearing 13-year-old from Worcester, Mass., stopped pedaling the camp’s bike-powered blender (whipping up strawberry-banana smoothies) to answer a reporter’s questions. “I LOVE this!” he exclaimed. “I have made a bunch of friends here. I like the art and music, the herbalism and the soccer — all of it!”
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“Repair the World Helps Build Eden Village Camp”
Campers engage in organic gardening and bee keeping, outdoor and wilderness adventure, green-friendly arts and crafts and natural sciences as well as weekly Shabbat celebrations and morning prayer and reflection time on the weekdays. Campers share locally-grown, mostly vegetarian meals – many of which they’ve helped to grow or cook.
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“The Making Of First-Time Campers”
This is much more than kids coming and learning about film, music and culinary arts,” [Yoni] said. “We will also have the sense of ritual, the fun things they are going to be doing and learning together: meals, Shabbat celebrations, community service, nighttime activities and meetings.
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“Where God Meets Green”
[I]nstead of games of tennis there will be pickling and permaculture. Rather than visiting the canteen for ice cream, kids will pick snap peas to munch from their bunk’s own “snack garden.”
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“36 under 36: Vivian Lehrer, 29 and Yoni Stadlin, 31”
A day after Vivian Lehrer and Yoni Stadlin got married, they received the best wedding gift of all: a $1.1 million grant to pursue their fantasy project, a Jewish sleep-away camp focused on environmental sustainability.
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“Specialty Camps Offer Angle for a Different Kind of Summer”
“We got some pushback saying starting a camp was a lot harder than you think — sort of like, when you convert to Judaism, you get told ‘no,’ ” [directo Yoni Stadlin] said. “But we found out this was a collective dream of many people.”
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“Eden Village Camp: Planting the Seeds of Tomorrow”
Located one hour north of New York City, the beautiful camp aims to be a living model of a thriving, inspired, sustainable Jewish community, grounded in social responsibility and a vibrant Jewish spiritual life.
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“How Green Is My Summer Camp?”
“Eden Village is not only the front edge of the Jewish environmental movement, but the future of the Jewish community,” incorporating many of the values the Jewish community cares about, said Nigel Savage, executive director of Hazon.
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“How a greener Jewish summer can make a greener Jewish future”
Eden Village hopes to renew the “Jewish wisdom that speaks to the environmental concerns that today’s young people care about, creating a substantive, relevant Judaism that is attracting youth who otherwise might have chosen a secular camp.”