Adamah Farm Fellowship
2026 Fellowship Dates:
Summer: May 17-August 23
Fall: August 20-November 22
Complete the short form to request the full application.
Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis.
A Typical Day
A typical day is spent on our six-acre farm, in our commercial kitchen and on our goat pasture, helping to create a sustainable business that models ecological design, financial viability and social responsibility. Evenings are spent learning about Judaism and sustainability, building community and cultivating leadership skills. Our amazing staff and assortment of visiting faculty will help you listen to and follow your soul’s yearning for ecological and spiritual wholeness, recraft a Jewish identity that sings to you, and build relationships and skills that will sustain you for the rest of your life.
Fellowship Fees
We have a sliding scale program fee and no one is turned away for lack of funds!
What should you pay?
Adamahniks come from all experiences in terms of class, racial barriers, and financial support from family or others. In recognition of the barriers faced by Jews of Color, we are we are prioritizing applications submitted by Jews of Color.
Together with foundation support, individual donations, and farm sales, fellowship fees are a critical component in covering the $10,000 cost per fellow of running the Adamah Fellowship.
Some fellows pay $5,000 to support us in making Adamah more financially accessible. Some pay $1,500. We have a small number of stipends available for fellows who cannot afford the three months lost income.
We depend on each fellow to reflect deeply on their fellowship fees. If you have financial capacity, please contribute $3,600, or more if you have the means. If the fellowship fee looks like a barrier to you, please don’t leave the process- we are excited to see your application and to work with you on the fee.
It may help to consider what it is that your program fee is helping to cover:
A living wage for our full-time staff, who coordinate the fellowship, the farm, and educational sessions
Seasonal Adamah Alumni residential farm staff
Housing for Fellows, including all utilities
Farm to table meals from our retreat center and Adamah House, valued between $15-40/meal.
Food from our farm: organic produce, milk from our goats, lacto-fermented pickles, jams, and more
Other food staples, and home and kitchen supplies
Class materials and resources
Field trips, including transportation
Bikes for all!
When considering what you should pay please think about who in your family or community (e.g. Rabbi’s discretionary fund, synagogue, Jewish Federation or other organizations) might want to support you participating in the Adamah Fellowship. We assume that all applicants are looking into any options they have for accessing funds for fellowship fees.
If you have personal or family resources that enable you to pay the full $3,600 fee or more, we ask you to do so to help us make this program more accessible to others.
Check out this Income Bracket Guide and chart below by Resource Generation to help you determine where you might fall on our sliding scale. *Note that this information is a general guide that does not reflect reality for every individual. No one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
Three fictional scenarios around payment:
Applicant 1 is from a middle income family who whose parents own their own house and have stable white collar jobs and retirement accounts. They paid for their child’s 4-year university degree. Although Josh has only worked at poorly paying service jobs for the past 2 years, he knows he can ask his parents and the synagogue he grew up in for help. Josh pays a $2500 fellowship fee.
Applicant IV reads over the Resource Generation guide and table to figure out where they might fall on the scale. Their parents paid for their college tuition, and tells them they’ll receive an inheritance when they turn 26. They are currently a student, working part time, and living on their own. Their nuclear family income is over $300,000 a year. This applicant decides to pay over the full fellowship fee of $3,600, and pays $4,500 to support the effort to make Adamah more financial accessible for others.
Applicant X does not have any savings they can use for a fellowship fee and is having trouble imagining how they’ll pay their cell phone bill and insurance premiums without the monthly paycheck they usually rely on. Their supportive family is super excited to receive pickling advice after the applicant is an expert, but also lives month to month and doesn’t have any financial support to offer. This applicant requests a stipend of $2,000 to cover expenses during their fellowship.
Payment Schedule
You will be asked to indicate the program fee amount you can pay on our Payment Info form, which you’ll receive when you apply for the Fellowship.
Upon acceptance, you are asked to pay a $250 non-refundable deposit. We cannot reserve your place without the deposit. Full payment is required approximately two weeks before the start date.