Your Role

Sukkot on the Farm is a co-created and communal experience with collective responsibilities for service in areas like cooking and teaching. We will be organized into tribes for ease of communication, service, and so you can get to know a smaller group of people. The success and beauty of our village will rely on our agreements for living harmoniously in community.

Cooking

Every participant will serve the community by cooking and/or cleaning up one meal. Cooking with our chef, Baruch Schwadron, is both a fun learning experience and a great opportunity to prepare our community’s food together.

Teaching

Wilderness Torah seeks to build an ecology of community enrichment, education, collaboration and exchange.  For example, participants voluntarily provide programs and workshops at Sukkot on the Farm.  This allows Wilderness Torah to offer innovative educational opportunities while providing a platform for teachers to develop and launch new ideas and expose their talents to the Wilderness Torah community.

The Village Council and other Volunteer Opportunities

A Sukkot on the Farm Village Council of over 20 people has been hard at work since early July to help organize the festival. Please thank them for their service! When you register, you will be asked if you’d like to help the planning committee by volunteering for a couple hours in the week or two leading up to the event.

Group Gear

Wilderness Torah provides all major structures for cooking, comfort and learning. We ask that participants bring tapestries, pillows and rugs to help decorate our sukkah. We also love homegrown food! Let us know if you have food from a fruit tree or an overflowing garden that you’d like to offer.

Tribes and Roshim (Heads of Tribes)

Tribes are small, randomly assigned groups of about ten people who come together for specific aspects of the festival, including a designated “Tribe Time” each day. It’s a way for people to get to know each other, go deeper in our experiences with the comfort of a smaller group, and make communication more efficient.  Tribes will also prepare or clean up food together for their assigned meal.

Each tribe has designated a Rosh (head). Roshim (plural for Rosh) are the communication links between the central planning team and you, and will be decided upon before the festival. Roshim will have one pre-festival meeting and will help facilitate the Tribe onsite.

Work Exchange

There are a limited number of onsite work-exchange positions available in areas from set-up and breakdown to registration and kitchen management.  Work-exchange applications are due on August 22, 2011.

Help Someone Else Go

We want to offer scholarships and work-exchange positions for Sukkot on the Farm this year, so that everyone who wants to come is able. Please consider purchasing a sponsorship ticket at $1018 or a ticket at a higher price to enable someone with less money to attend. If you’ve already purchased a ticket or if you’re not coming, and you’d still like to donate to the scholarship fund, simply do so here.  You can also donate an item to our wishlist!