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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

