Updates From The Field
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Featured Blogs
Ha Gesher (The Bridge)
The Bridge Podcast showcases deeply personal conversations with men and women who served in Israel’s military and were exposed to shocking events. In this episode, Reserve soldier Shahar discusses his struggle with trauma following his service in Gaza and how Kaima’s “Anchored in the Earth,” led by Kaima's Guy Bar-Navon, is helping him to reach and “soften” his pain in ways that traditional therapy could not.
June 2025, Listen in Hebrew HERE.
Chicago Council on Global Affairs Podcast Series
Growing Pains: Transforming Global Food and Agriculture
One of Kaima’s brightest young stars is David Yacobi. In spring 2023, he spoke with Roger Thurow, Senior Fellow at the Center on Global Food and Agriculture and long-time Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent, in a podcast produced by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
In that episode, David and Roger discussed how youth engagement is critical to concerns related to how we nourish the world’s population while protecting the planet in the process. What we love about the podcast is that it provided a platform for two individuals—one in his teens, the other some four decades older—to interact as equals on matters of common concern and true consequence!
Good People Talk Podcast Series
In Israel, Empowering Teenage Girls At-Risk
Good People Funds, Glenn Rosenkrantz--a journalist with more than a quarter century of global media. strategic communications, and public relations experience--speaks with Kaima’s Merav Carmi. Merav is the Co-founder and CEO of Kaima Nahalal, our network farm created by and for girls and women in Israel’s northern Jezreel Valley.
News Archives
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Employment as Education: A "Working" Model
A prominent culinary journalist, Ronit Vered, visited us over the summer and wrote an insightful article about our Kaima’s intergenerational approach to building community, describing us as a small organic farm ”redefining what equality means” and referencing the "good things that can happen when people abandon some unwritten rules.”
Ha'aretz
23 July 2025 READ MORE (Hebrew)
Kaima welcomes a fifth sister farm and the first outside of Israel
“It’s something we always wished would happen -- to see our model duplicated all over the world. We’re so happy about it...”
Israel21C's Abigail Klein Leichman writes about the global export of the Kaima model
30 April 2018 READ MORE
Kaima embraces our ‘troublemaker’ moniker
“Kaima offers another path for youth who have dropped out of school and may just need a different, less standardized track to find their way in the world.”
Read about Dr. Nancy Strichman’s Times of Israel blog post on how Kaima’s model is helping to teach her Hebrew University’s Glocal graduate students.
February 17, 2023 READ MORE
Atmosphere of calm understanding
Read about the day Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am of the Times of Israel of spent with Kaima’s young farmers and staff.
26 August 2017 READ MORE
Good Produce – And Good Works
The Jerusalem Post’s Sharon Aharoni reflects on Kaima’s model.
8 July 2016 READ MORE
"Farm therapy" expands into hydroponics
Israel21C's Abigail Klein Leichman checks back in with Kaima founder.
5 July 2016 READ MORE
A Jewish Farmers' Movement: Revolutionary or Ridiculous?
The second annual Jewish farmers conference hosted by the Leichtag Foundation brought together some fifty Jewish farmers to discuss issues such as sustainability, ethical food procurement, and Jewish communal return to agricultural endeavor.
The Forward
7 February 2016 READ MORE
Social organic farm gives teens a second chance
"The…CSA customers of Kaima aren’t only supporting a local organic farm. They make it possible…to provide a fresh start for teenagers who’ve dropped out of high school."
Originally posted by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
4 June, 2015 READ MORE
Farm to basket to table
The CSA movement is finally gaining ground in Israel. But will ‘shmita’ throw it off track?
The Jerusalem Post's Amy Spiro discusses organic farms and the implications of shmita.
9 October 2014 READ MORE
Dropout teens blossom at unique organic farm
Israel21C's interview with Kaima founder by Abigail Klein Leichman.
28 September 2014 READ MORE
Honorable Mentions
Kaima Featured on Jewish Giving Platform
Kaima Co-Founder, Yoni Yefet Reich was interviewed by our new friends at Righteous Crowd, a micro-giving platform that engages the Jewish community in supporting impactful not-for-profit organizations.
Israelis and internationals build new careers as eco change makers
Read about how the Green Apprenticeship program at Kibbutz Lotan inspired environmental activist Merav Carmi to establish Kaima Nahalal, the fourth franchise farm in the Kaima network.
Make Eat Magazine
Kaima Beit Zayit appeared in a great article – “A Place to Grow” – featuring the founders of our sister farm, Kaima Hukuk in Israel’s north.
Public gardens across globe admire new model in Jerusalem
Read about Kaima’s role in the Jerusalem Botanical Garden Social and Environmental Hub, a wonderful addition to the capital city.
Hazon Visit to Kaima
Jewish educator Nigel Savage, the president of Hazon (Vision), an NGO committed to promoting environmental and human sustainability by creating change through hands-on experiences had this to say about his recent visit to Kaima.
Kaima receives JFN-Keren Baktana Giving Circle Prize
In March 2015, Kaima was chosen as the recipient of Israel’s largest giving circle, whose donors gathered at the Jewish Funder's Network International conference in Tel Aviv. Many, many thanks to all who made this possible.
Kaima participates in the Jewish Community Farming Conference in San Diego, hosted by the Leichtag Foundation, January 2015.
The Jewish Community Farmer Advisory Committee followed the release of the Jewish Outdoor, Food, & Environmental Education report, which highlighted the growing movement of Jewish experiences centered around outdoor, food, and environmental education. Kaima was front and center throughout the conference sponsored by the Leichtag Foundation.
A Day in the Field
In November 2013, a group of 20 Israel Venture Network entrepreneurs and philanthropists from Israel and the US visited Kaima to learn about our social business practices and the lives we are changing, and to offer their own great insights to help guide our future.
Times of Israel
The Good People Fund
'A simple act of kindness can make a world of difference' This is the guiding philosophy of one of Kaima's best freinds and supporters - The Good People Fund. This great organizaiton recently highlight us on their website.
UPDATE: Check out GPF Founder Noaomi Eisenberger's latest online diary entry.
Times of Israel
Dr. Nancy Strichman teaches graduate courses in evaluation and strategic thinking through Hebrew University’s Glocal program, and researches shared society NGOs and gender equality in Israel. Enjoy her blog about our sister farm, Kaima Nahalal, and her thoughts on how its founders are making a difference in the lives of girls and women.