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from Yeshiva Beth Yehudah.
"It seemed perfect," she said.
Despite their lack of farming expe-
rience, the Benjamins bought the land
and — armed only with a stack of
books on the topic — began to till the
soil. First, they cleared land and plant-
ed grass, then they built the barn.
Gradually, the Benjamins intro-
duced animals. First came 25 chick-
ens, which they ordered from a mail-
order catalog. "When they arrived, the
post office called and we could hear
their cheeping over the phone,"
recalled Yehudis. "We thought they'd
be big and that we'd need a trailer to
carry them, but when we got there it
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The children watch dad ride Ringo, the
horse.
was just a small box with them packed
together to keep warm."
Twelve-year-old Aharon Yedidya
still remembers sighting the first egg.
"We were so excited we took it to the
house right away and scrambled it. All
of us shared it," he said.
Ducks and geese soon followed.
Then a few sheep and a horse, Ringo,
who managed to get loose one day
and devour the entire corn harvest.
Despite their increasing yield, the
Benjamins still rely on the supermar-
ket for most o _ f their food and view
the farm as a pasttime more than a
vocation. They occasionally enlist the
aid of visiting relatives, but most of
the chores fall to the parents, Aharon
Yedidya, Shlomo Yaakov, 6, and Levi,
5. Even the youngest child, 3-year-old
Akiva, helps out. -
"It's boy heaven," said Yehudis.
"There's always something to do —
mending the fence, feeding the ani-
mals, planting. The boys spend a lot
of time together. It's like a big play-
ground for them."
But the farm is more than a play-
ground for the Benjamins. They see
it as an outgrowth of their spirituali-
ty. "Cycle of life and connections to
the earth all come together here,"
said Brian. "The children learn
responsibility. There's a rhythm of
life here that you really get in touch
with. We're fortunate that we're able
to craft that out of this little piece of
suburbia."
The Benjamins' farm is one of only
a small handful in the city of
Southfield, which allows farms under
10 acres in single-family zoned dis-
tricts, said a city planner Barbara
McBeth. The city does have certain