Shir Tikvah, located in Minneapolis, MN, has a big goal: to create a beautiful, sustainable landscape around their synagogue replete with rain gardens, a vegetable garden, a native plants garden, beehives, a walking trail with benches at strategic spots, and an orchard. Phase I of their Gendler Grapevine Project initiative has included the installation of four rain gardens. They worked with [...]

Congregation B'nai Israel's (CBI) Gendler Grapevine Project initiative centers on the development of a full calendar of Earth-based rituals, classes, and festivals that will position their on-site community farm (Abundance Farm) in new ways and will change the way that their congregation thinks, teaches, and prays by reestablishing the central place of the natural world within [...]