2020 / 5780-5781 Recap

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  Linke Fligl in 2020, 5780-5781

  Farm, land and chickens: We welcomed Sweet Freedom Farm to the land! SF is growing almost an acre of veg at LF as part of the Farms Not Prisons movement * Expanded our perennial herbs and medicines * Briggin started two beehives and planted an orchard of baby trees to fruit for future generations * Local community garden time work parties * The beavers built a new dam by the bridge * Hosted 13 weekends of folks camping on the land * Ran our first season of a local egg CSA, supporting safe food access in the pandemic

  Community offerings: Lev from the Land virtual ritual series inviting us into ritual on land wherever we are * Flat Fligl and Sukkot HaGalut Sukkot art installation weaving prayers into sacred space from across the diaspora * Sukkot Night Live: Very gay Simchat beit Hashoeva variety show * 21 performers, 200+ participants, and over $7000 raised for EKVN YEFOLECV * Sukkot and Chanukah virtual hallel services with Anat, Rena and Batya * Published Ushpi(zine), sukkot zine and hopefully the first of a series on homecoming and reparations in Jewish diaspora. 50 pages of goodness from over 20 contributors * Sent 60 homegrown Zei Gezunt herbal care packages to Black organizers working to demilitarize our communities and envision community-based safety

  Organizational growth: Advisory council! We are thrilled to finally have a team of four mentors and movement elders supporting our work * Join the Flock fundraiser! * We are so humbled by the folks who joined the flock and helped move almost $60K to BIPOC land projects doing the holy work of cultural resilience building and land stewardship - AND helped us keep LF supported and growing * This was Year 2 of our Native land tax, collecting $3500 for the Schaghticoke First Nations * LF became a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects * This year was the second season of the LF cultural organizing team! A peer leadership team that helps to craft and steward our strategy and creative offerings. They are amazing. Shout out to: Ida, Megan, Ollie, Alli, Zeb, Batya and Rena * We moved into an office space this year! And by office we mean an old milking parlor in a barn. * Perhaps most miraculously, we stayed together as a team and pulled all of this off while two of our four-person team recovered from long-term Covid and two of our team struggled to find housing as the pandemic has dramatically raised housing prices in the Hudson Valley.