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Subsidized Sustainable Food Tour in Israel in November

Daniella Cheslow
By Daniella Cheslow
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At Green Prophet, we often post on organic vegetables and dairy products being grown in Israel; this November two Jewish environmental organizations are offering a heavily subsidized chance to see the farms and produce yourself. Hazon (which runs an annual Food Conference in the USA) and the Heschel Center will lead an Israel Sustainable Food Tour from November 15-19.

Trip highlights  include farms near Modi’in and Emek Hefer, as well as  Palestinian organic farms in Wadi Fuqin. The itenerary also includes Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market, Bedouin permaculture sites in the Negev, and Kibbutz Maagan Michael on the Mediterranean coast. In fact, the trip is by happy coincidence a sort of “Greatest Hits of the Green Prophet.”

Hazon’s Web site stresses that the trip is not only about eating, but rather about understanding the complex webs behind Israel’s food delivery system. Some Jewish learning will further round out the itinerary.

The five-day tour is an outrageously cheap $400, although if you are coming from abroad the flight is on you. The application deadline is June 15. Get more information here. (Photo from Hazon.org).

::Hazon website

Daniella Cheslow
Daniella Cheslowhttp://www.greenprophet.com
Daniella Cheslow grew up in a car-dependent suburb in New Jersey, where she noticed strip malls and Wal-Marts slowly replacing farmland. Her introduction to nature came through hiking trips in Israel. As a counselor for a freshman backpacking program at Northwestern University, Daniella noticed that Americans outdoors seemed to need to arm themselves with performance clothing, specialized water bottles and sophisticated camping silverware. This made her think about how to interact with and enjoy nature simply. This year, Daniella is getting a Master’s in Geography from Ben Gurion University of the Negev. She also freelance writes, photographs and podcasts. In her free time, she takes day trips in the desert, drops off compost and cooks local foods like stuffed zucchini, kubbeh and majadara. Daniella gets her peak oil anxiety from James Howard Kunstler and her organic food dreams from Michael Pollan. Read more at her blog, TheTruthHerzl.com. Daniella can be reached at daniella (at) greenprophet (dot) com.

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