Shmita Lessons in the Yavneh Academy GrowTorah Garden Program

In this monthly feature, we showcase one of our Shorashim Partners - this month features Yavneh Academy.

The Yavneh garden has been booming during this very exciting shmita year! With GrowTorah’s own Sara Just-Michael, students have been learning about shmita and which plants are good to plant before a shmita year to help maintain the soil. During the garden classes, Yavneh students also learn a parsha-based garden value, gain practical garden knowledge, and even get to make a bracha on something in the garden! See you next week in the garden, Yavneh!

At GrowTorah, we are privileged to work with many extraordinary partners, including those in our Shorashim program. For each of our Shorashim partners, we build beautiful vegetable gardens on-site, where our staff teach weekly lessons for the students throughout the growing season. One of our phenomenal partners is Yavneh Academy, a Modern Orthodox, co-educational yeshiva day school in Paramus, NJ.