1. Yarok Together Columbus Jewish Day School
Columbus Torah Academy
Serving our Earth;
and, our Community!
Gina Freeman Phd.
Director, Yarok Together
Diana Jo D’Angelo, MAJCS
Site Coordinator, Yarok Together

2. Earth Day 2015 at CTA...
The Work Begins
‫תשע''ד‬ ‫אב‬
August 2014
‫אדמה‬ ‫שומרי‬
Shomrei Adamah
Guardians of the Earth
Earth Day 2015
Hidden Treasures at CTA
‫תשע״ה‬ ‫אייר‬

3. Newly Improved
Yarok Garden Beds at CTA
Spring 2016 ‫תשע’’ו‬ ‫אביב‬
Cutting /Tilling Winter Cover Crop
‫אדמה‬ ‫שומרי‬
Guardians of the Earth
Autumn 2015 ‫סתיו‬
Planting cool weather lettuce!

4. CJDS Garden Yarok Additions
Seven New Raised Beds
Repairing the World ‫עולם‬ ‫תיקון‬
Mishkan Miriam ‫ם‬‫רי‬‫מי‬ ‫כן‬‫ש‬‫מ‬Miriam and Marty Linsey Greenhouse

5. Reflections on the origins of food
Connection with the Torah
Monitoring growth of seeds
‫זרעים‬ ‫לגדל‬
To Grow Seeds
Unit 1 – Lesson 1

6. Earth ‫אדמה‬
‫קיימא‬ ‫בר‬ ‫הארץ‬
Sustainable Earth
Unit 1 Lesson 2

7. Growing Environment ‫גידול‬ ‫סביבת‬
Unit 1 – Lesson 3
To Grow ‫לגדל‬
Growing Environment
Planting
Nurturing
Harvesting
Nourishing
Learning
Seed to Harvest
Making connections
Essential for 6th
Graders

8. To Harvest ‫לקצור‬
Infusing Food with
Cultural Flavors of
Jewish Communities
Around the World
Unit 2 - Lesson 7
‫ם‬‫י‬‫ד‬‫ו‬‫ה‬‫י‬ ‫ם‬‫י‬‫ל‬‫כ‬‫א‬‫מ‬
Integration - Health Education

9. The Smiles Say it All

10. Yarok Together Students
Atid Members
Jewish Family Service
Preparing Rosh Hashanah Bags for
residents at the Towers at Wexner
Heritage Village
‫תשע''ה‬ ,‫אלול‬
August 30, 2015
‫עולם‬ ‫תיקון‬
Repairing the World

11. Rainy day in September at CTA
CTA in the Rain,
CJDS in the Sun,
No matter the Weather -
It’s always fun!
Developing new Relationships
while Caring for the Earth
Students enjoyed visiting each
others’ gardens and schools while
working towards their common
Yarok Together goals.

12. Greater Columbus Garden Coalition
White Barn Organic Farm
Franklin Park Conservatory
Oakland Nursery
Strader’s Nursery
OSU Extension
Donations
and love!
COLLABORATION

13. Survey says!
100% of Students surveyed:
Delivering the Produce to Residents’ doors was the
best part of the Fall 2015 Program

14. "I just had such a beautiful experience I had to share it with
somebody. I got the name of your school off this letter. I had just
woken up from a nap when my doorbell was ringing so I was a little
grumpy and I went to the door and saw all these young people with
another gentlemen handing out food. And I'm thinking to myself, "Oh,
that's nice, they went to the store." And I said, "Thank you," and they
left. I didn't even hear his presentation. And as I was putting the
food up, I noticed it was fresh! Like grown out of the ground! So I
opened the door and I called the young man back, and I said, "I'm
just curious, did you grow this?"
And he said, "Yes."
I said, "At your home?"
And he said, "No, at our school."
I just think that's the most awesome thing. Those are truly God's
children. And I don't know who started this program, I don't know
anything about this program, but thank you. And thank those angels
for me again, please. Good bye." (resident of Wexner Heritage Towers)
fROM THE hEART - FOOD FOR THE SOUL

15. Quotations From the Garden
It’s meaningful to me when we go up to the
residents, hand them a bag of vegetables and
make them happy.
6th grade I love how we see the whole
thing, from planting, harvesting
and then we get to deliver them
to the people and they are so
happy.
4th grade
Doing the deliveries is the
best….well, I like the
gardening too….I just
love everything about
what we do. We get to
make a difference in other
people’s lives.
5th grade
https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive

16. Fresh Produce to Teens in Need
Sharing Food ‫אוכל‬ ‫לחלוק‬

17. ● 450 Community
Service Hours
● 1000 Pounds of
Produce…
● Delivered to
440 Different People
(many repeat )
2 Gardens
2 Greenhouses
Yarok Together ‫ביחד‬ ‫ירוק‬