Festivals
Living Tree’s festival programs weave Jewish calendar traditions with New England's seasonal pulse, creating meaningful community gatherings for all generations.
For over a decade, our festivals have brought people young and old together to mark time in powerful ways—celebrating Sukkot alongside our fall harvest and Purim amid the spring's flowing maple sap.
We honor ancestral wisdom while crafting fresh, relevant rituals. By gathering on the land to sing, learn, eat, and celebrate the cycles of time together, we offer an alternative to a culture that often values material over meaning.
Our festivals transform ancient traditions into vibrant experiences that connect past to present, creating authentic moments of community, learning, and joy.
Jewish Farm Fellowships
Deepen your relationship with the land, Jewish wisdom, and yourself. Living Tree Alliance's annual fall Village-Building Fellowship is a two-week immersive experience for young adults ages 21–28 that weaves together earth-based Judaism, regenerative farming, and intentional community living.
Set against the backdrop of Vermont's autumn harvest, fellows live together in our Common House—steps from the farm, forests, and trails of the Mad River Valley—sharing meals and daily rhythms.
Fellows bring in crops from our regenerative farm, learn food-preservation techniques, and support youth through place-based education. Hands-on workshops explore the rhythms of the Jewish calendar alongside the New England seasons and the ways ancestral wisdom can guide modern, grounded living. Between farm projects and workshops, there's space for hiking, biking, reflection time, and the slower, more intentional rhythms of life in community.
Fellows will also play a central role in our 13th Annual Sukkot on the Farm Festival (September 25–26), celebrating the Jewish harvest festival through farming, ritual, music, learning, and community gathering—honoring the abundance of the season and what it means to build sacred culture together.
Our 2026 fellowship runs Sept. 18–Oct. 2. Applications due September 1.
We also offer a full-year farm fellowship opportunity. Farm fellows become a temporary part of our cohousing, farm, and festival communities to learn about village building, regenerative agriculture, earth-based Judaism, and outdoor education. Contact us for more info.