About Kayam
Sign-up for the ECO RIDE to support Kayam Farm on May 3, 2009
Kayam Farm organically grows healthy food for the Pearlstone Center and greater Baltimore community, while facilitating hands-on Jewish and secular agricultural and environmental education to several thousand participants each year. We hope to reconnect people with their food and with the earth, inspiring social and ecological responsibility in the Jewish community, greater Baltimore, and beyond. Kayam Farm’s 5 acres include organically grown vegetables, culinary & medicinal herbs, fruit trees, vineyards, berries & asparagus, grains, and a greenhouse. Sections of the farm demonstrate ancient Jewish agricultural laws, reinvigorating our Jewish agricultural heritage. In addition to the farm, the Kayam program also includes interpretive trails, wildlife habitat and ecosystem restoration efforts, and a plethora of community education workshops, programs, and volunteer opportunities.
David melech yisrael, chai vekayam. Long live David king of Israel.
Baruch ata hashem eloheinu melech haolam, shehechianu vekimanu, vehigianu, lazman hazeh Blessed are you, G-d, ruler of the world, who has given us life, established us, and brought us to this time.
The Hebrew word Kayam is variously translated as: exist, sustain, firmly established, and everlasting. It is our hope that our farm, education, and community-building efforts reflect the meaning of these words, as well as the Hebrew essence which escapes translation.
