Join us as we talk all things Sukkot and art and agriculture and Judaism with Sol Weiss (they/them)! During this episode, we talk about the idea of sukkah’s as vision forts, what it means to be in healing relationship with the land, collective composting, and so so much more. 

Some links to things that we discuss in this session are:

🌱 The COVID Grief Network (now, Reimagine)

🌱 Being with Grief workbook that Sol illustrated, which is for sale now! (Being with Grief: a Book of Doodles & Prompts: a creative workbook for young adults (and beyond) who’ve experienced significant loss. Part coloring book, part journal, and part ritual guide, this workbook offers 67 pages of low-stakes, self-directed ways to engage with loss on your own terms. Written by Noach Cochran, Katherine Evering-Rowe and Chloe Zelkha, illustrated by Sol.)

🌱 Jewish Agricultural Calendar by the Jewish Farmer Network, illustrated by Sol, available for purchase now as well

🌱 The book Nature and the Human Soul by Bill Plotkins

🌱 Melanie Kaye Kantrowitz and radical diasporism

🌱 Linke Fligl

🌱 Tzedek Lab, where Sol is the Director of Communications & Resource Sharing

🌱 The Sacred Orchard poster and series, created with Dori Midnight (Sacred Orchard: an 18"x24" poster made in collaboration with Dori Midnight exploring seven trees in Jewish magic, myth and medicine. Part of a series that includes a smaller poster on Jewish amulet craft and protection plants, and a Jewish plant magic postcard set.)

🌱 Ushpizin(e): Sukkot edition of Ki Li Ha'aretz, Linke Fligl's zine on reparations and homecoming in Jewish diaspora. (available for download at https://linkefligl.com/zine and in hard copy at https://www.pushcartjudaica.com/shop-old/p/ushpizine-sukkot-zine-ritual-guide)

More about Sol:

“Sol has served their communities as a visual artist, ritualist and educator for over a decade, using cultural organizing to explore how land, kinship and Jewish tradition can support us in overcoming oppression, healing from colonization and building new worlds. From 2017-2021, they were Co-Director at Linke Fligl queer Jewish chicken farm, where they cultivated wild queer community, held earth-based ritual space and co-facilitated programs for anti-colonial Jewish land connection. They have been on the strategy team for the JVP Havurah Network, a co-founder and ritual leader of Nishmat Shoom, and Director of Operational Change at Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center. When they’re not in the print shop, the kitchen or the garden, Sol is working with Tzedek Lab as Director of Communications and Resource Sharing to support a growing network of visionaries and changemakers moving the Jewish world towards justice for all.”

As always, shout out to Jessie for editing the pod and Nate for our podcast music!

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