Galilee Restoration Project

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Permaculture

Kaditah Ecology Center work crew after repairing and cleaning the gravel-reed bed greywater system, which uses water from the tofu business and household to water the garden.		Kadita Ecology Center Located in a small village in the northern Galilee, this educational center offers workshops and apprenticeship opportunities in sustainable living practices such as solar cooking, greywater reuse, rainwater collection, gardening, seed saving, and composting. The Halpern family, also known as the Pompony Family Circus, opened their land to the creation of this educational-ecology center in memory of the late Tzveka Halpern, husband, father and head clown. For more information contact: Imke Halpern: 972-4-697-3093 or 972-52-559-7228 or Galilee Restoration Project
A group of visiting Palestinian educators	Visitor from Kibbutz Harduf's Elisha House

Tzefat Center for Healthy Living The Tzefat Center for Healthy Living hosts and supports programs, projects and practitioners related to sustainability and healthy living, on individual, community, and environmental levels. Ecology and permaculture activities include a rooftop garden, recycling and composting center, an organic seed bank, solar ovens, and workshops on handcrafts from natural materials. Holistic health activities include yoga, natural and alternative healing, nutrition, healthy cooking and workshops on identification and use of local medicinal herbs. The Center welcomes anyone to participate, thus bridging between the diverse parts of the community.
Above: Rooftop garden in salvaged ammunition crates photo credit: Andy Alpern www.golemproductions.com Below: Solar oven demonstration
For more information contact: Moshe Tov Kreps 972 (04) 692-3535 mobile: 0547 338 388 moshetov@netvision.net.il or Galilee Restoration Project

The Steven’s Garden Project:
Urban Gardening with Children

With Steven's Garden Project children living in Tzefat learn how to develop and maintain organic gardens, and apply permaculture principles. The project was founded in 1996 as a living memorial to Steven Levine, who passed away from cancer at age 26. Dozens of children in Tzefat have learned gardening, making compost and basics of ecology through this project. Based in an orthodox Jewish neighborhood, ecology is taught in the context of Jewish tradition. A coloring book "Nature in Tzefat" was created with this project, and is available in Hebrew or English through Eretz Natna Yevulah.

photo credits: Yehudit Goldfarb Children's garden in Tzefat Steven's Garden in the Beginning

Steven's Garden in 2004 The first Steven's Garden was planted in 1996. For six years it was the site of weekly children's activities and workshops for adults. In 2001 it reached maturity as an ornamental and recreational urban green space. It is enjoyed by local neighbors and tourists. A new mural was painted on the wall behind the garden in 2004.

Jewish-Arab co-operation and co-existence

Connecting through a shared concern: the health of the earth and people. Eretz Natna Yevulah offers permaculture seminars and educational activities to existing programs fostering Jewish-Arab and Israeli-Palestinian cooperation.
photo credit: Yehudit Goldfarb Ecovillage modeling exercise with Beyond Words, a Jewish-Arab women's group in the Galilee		photo courtesy of Neve Shalom/Nawat al-Sala’am Ecology lesson at the elementary school in Neve Shalom/Nawat-al-Sala’am, a Jewish-Arab community
		Above: Puppet show about habitat protection at the "Sulha" peace festival.

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