Summer Farm Specialist

Urban Adamah is an educational farm and community center in Berkeley, California that integrates the practices of Jewish tradition, mindfulness, sustainable agriculture, and social action to build loving, just, and sustainable communities. We provide training programs, educational workshops, and community celebrations for more than 10,000 visitors annually.

Every summer, Urban Adamah offers an outdoor summer camp for kids ages 3 – 14. Summer Camp features hands-on projects and activities exploring themes that integrate nature-connection, crafts, farming, community-building, and Jewish values. Camp Urban Adamah is designed to create a space for children to thrive and express their natural curiosity and passion, all within a vibrant, loving, and inclusive Jewish community. 

The Summer Farm Specialists are responsible for the educational content of summer camp. Specialists plan and facilitate 2-3 sessions per day for campers ages 3-14 that bring the magic of the farm to life. The Summer Specialists are responsible for knowing what is happening on the farm and for bringing the campers into that magic through art, storytelling, mindfulness, experimentation, and experiential activities.

• ACTIVITY LEADER: The Summer Specialists are responsible for planning and facilitating 2-3 farm education sessions per day. The blocks should be fun and engaging experiences for the campers and are the core of what makes Urban Adamah Camp such a rich experience for the campers. Specialists are encouraged to be creative and design farm education sessions from a place of their own interests, skills and what they want to learn and teach within this context.
• FARM LEARNING: The Summer Specialists are responsible for working closely with the farm team to work the land, including but not limited to planting, harvesting, weeding, animal chores, watering, and farm maintenance. The farm team will teach and train specialists so that they can meaningfully engage in farm work, as well as lead campers in farm work.
• COMMUNAL LIVING: As a core part of this program, specialists live together on site. Urban Adamah staff provide specialists with frameworks  to help them develop a robust Jewish communal life in the time that they are living together on the farm.
• JEWISH LEARNING: There will be opportunities for Jewish learning over the course of the summer with our Ed team staff. We will learn about shabbat and its rituals, the basics of earth-based Judaism, and Jewish meditation practices.

Learn more & apply here! Please submit your cover letter, resume, two professional references with how you know them, and responses to the following short questions. Bullet pointed lists are welcome as responses to the short questions, if preferred by the applicant. (maximum 200 words for each).

1. What experience or interest do you have in sustainable farming, food justice, and community building?
2. Describe your experience with working with children. What age ranges have you worked with? In what capacity? Are there any courses or training that you have taken? Is there any other relevant experience you want to share with us?
3. What excites you about working at a Jewish summer camp?
4. What excites you about living communally on the farm for the summer?
5. We require all Summer Specialists to have their own health insurance in order to participate in the experience. Do you have health coverage?