26 | OCTOBER 10 • 2024
A
damah Detroit, The Well
and Tamarack Camps are
teaming up for a festive
Sukkot celebration against the back-
drop of Tamarack Camps’ beautiful
Farber Farm. At the first-ever Sukkot
on the Farm, attendees will enjoy
Jewish ritual and learning, a kosher,
vegetarian farm-to-table meal, non-
alcoholic botanical beverages and
a spirited Sukkot Sounds concert
featuring the music of local band 7
Layers.
This event is intended for adults
and takes place Sunday, Oct. 20, from
5-8 p.m.
Last year, The Well and Adamah
Detroit came together for “Sukkot
on the Canal,” which took place at
Coriander Kitchen & Farm on the
Detroit River.
The event was a part of
The Well’s Sukkot Sounds
initiative, inspired by
reinventing the harvest
festival of Sukkot into
a music festival to cre-
ate more accessibility,
awareness and education
around the pilgrimage festivals and
breathe new life into Sukkot.
Sukkot commonly gets overshad-
owed by Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur, and Sukkot on the Farm is
just a different way of celebrating
Sukkot and lifting it up, says The
Well’s Rabbi Jeff Stombaugh.
“Being on the farm, being able to
connect to the Earth,” Rabbi Jeff says,
“should lend itself to some really
powerful experiences, ritually and
Jewishly.
“I hope people walk away changed,
with a personal charge to be in com-
munity in a deeper way,” he adds.
“One of the things I like to teach is
that Judaism believes you should not
be the same at the end of an experi-
ence as you were at the beginning of
it. I think this event is really ripe for
that to come true.”
Adding Tamarack
Camps as an extension
of the already val-
ue-aligned partnership
only made sense this
year.
Alex Rosenberg,
Farber Farm manager at
Tamarack Camps, says this event is
an exciting opportunity for people to
come together and celebrate Sukkot.
“Farber Farm is a place where we
can see the stars and the sky, quiet
down our minds and be in a natural
environment that’s rich with food,”
Rosenberg says. “Sukkot is a harvest
holiday, and that’s something we
don’t have a lot of access to in Metro
Detroit, opportunities to be on farms
Jewishly. It’s a nice fit that feels close
to home, but also like you’re in a
whole different place.
“We’re coming up on an anniversa-
ry of a really tough moment for our
Jewish community, and to be able to
come out and celebrate all the good
this community is putting on togeth-
er and focus on the beauty and abun-
dance of this season will be special,”
Rosenberg adds.
Carly Sugar, program development
and education specialist at Adamah
Detroit, said, “Sukkot is ultimately a
harvest festival, so there’s no better
place to do it than on a farm. We’ll
have several sukkahs on the farm with
different things going on
in each of them, includ-
ing local lulav-making.”
Subsidized tickets are
available at three pay-
what-you-can tiers: $36,
$50 and $72. Organizers
don’t want cost to be a barrier for
attending this event.
For questions or additional sup-
port, contact Marisa at marisa@
meetyouatthewell.org.
This event is supported by Adat Shalom
Synagogue, Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
Congregation Shir Tikvah, Isaac Agree
Downtown Synagogue, Reboot and Repair
the World Detroit. Register at https://jlive.app/
events/9017.
Alex
Rosenberg
OUR COMMUNITY
Rabbi Jeff
Stombaugh
Carly Sugar
Connecting earth, local food and live music at Farber Farm
Sukkot on the Farm
DANNY SCHWARTZ SENIOR STAFF REPORTER