Sukkot on The Farm Festival - Oct 6 - Oct 8
Living Tree Alliance - 307 VT - 100B, Moretown, VT 05660
Register and Details at www.livingtreealliance.com
Join a village for this weekend of sharing dance, food, art, teaching, gratitude, nature and the pure exhilaration of peak foliage on our homestead in Vermont. Inspired by the Jewish tradition to practice gratitude and humility by eating, hosting and sleeping in tents for the week surrounding the full moon of Autumn, we are throwing a harvest party!
Travel for the weekend or the day, and check out our schedule of events that will fill you up with the peace of community, nature, harvest and gratitude.
Friday Night : 6:30pm - Shabbat Dinner at Bubbi's Vermont Style - Farm to Table Dinner under the Stars in our Shelter of Peace, prepared by Chef Erin from the Bobcat Cafe. Space limited, must pre-register at www.livingtreealliance.com
Saturday Pausing in Community with Mindfulness Workshops 1:30 - 4 pm : Mindfulness, art and nature workshops that celebrate all that arises from a slower pace of gratitude and connection. Youth farm and forest activities. Workshops led by Abbi Jaffe, Nicole Grubman and Kohenet Yepeth Perla.
Havdalah Ritual in the Sukkah led by Rabbi David Fainsilber: 6:30pm. A ritual of distinctions with song, chants, and special seasonal dance performed by Kohenet Aliza Schechter.
Saturday Night Klezmer Barn Dance Party 8 pm : Dance the night away in the barn with this award Winning Klezmer band from Western Massachusetts. Bonfire outside! Bring deserts to share!
Sunday Sukkot on the Farm Harvest Party 9:30 a.m - 2:30 p.m.
Enjoy the abundance of the harvest with celebration on a community farm in the Mad River Valley. Spiritual teachers, puppet shows, kids programming, nature immersion and song engages all generations and backgrounds in the morning. An afternoon of homesteading brings the celebration to the land with Mad River Valley's Band Sugar Shack, apple pressing, draft horse demonstrations, gleaning harvest, garlic planting, preserving and more.
9:30 a.m. Arrival on the Land - Pilgrimage through art, text, forest and farm to ARRIVE at our festival sukkah "hut". The walk is about 1/8 a mile on a forest road. We recommend back road strollers only.
9:45 a.m. Opening Circle of Blessings, Intentions and Song
10:00- 11:30 a.m. All Ages Workshops and time to decorate and socialize in the Sukkah
Workshops For Adults
Kabbalah of Joy and Text Exploration
Edibles and Medicinals of Autumn
Mindfulness and Jewish Meditation
Tour of Living Tree Land and Cohousing
For Parents and Children under 6
PJ Library Sing Shmooze and Celebrate hosts Talking Hand Theatre's Dusty Builds a Sukkah! Harvest Play Area
Elementary Aged Youth Sukkah Craft Area
Natural Items Harvest Stained Glass, Vegetable Print Peace Flags, Ripped Paper Mosaic, Macrame and Local Lulav Weaving
Teens and Tweens Community Building Games and Work Party at the Farm
11:45 p.m. Community Lulav Shakedown in the Sukkah and Prayer for the Land and Food
12-2 p.m. Homesteading Hoedown with SugarShack! Music, Food trucks, draft horse and blacksmithing demonstration, apple pressing, saurkraut making, garlic planting and trails exploration
Vendors: Sound Healing, Tarot Readings, Clothing, Pottery, and more
2 p.m. Community Drum Circle with Saragail Benjamin
Thank you to our co-sponsors: Ruach Ha'Maqom, Beth Jacob, Ohavi Zedek, JCOGS, PJ Library of Vermont, Arthur and Bobby Kurzweil, and Jackie Rosenbloom and Jeffrey Mazur
Register at www.livingtreealliance.com
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