The End is Always a Beginning
This year’s blueberry season has come to a close.
On Monday, we sent you the last blueberry deliveries, thus bidding farewell to the sweet, delectable fruits that accompanied us, first from the Chelkat HaSadeh Farm, and then from the Kaima Farm as well.
But, take heart! The delectable raspberries from Chelkat HaSadeh still continue to ripen and flow.
ADD THESE TREASURES TO YOUR BOXES VIA OUR ORDER SYSTEM TODAY!
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As the Hebrew New Year of 5785 approaches – may it bring cooperation and understanding – we are delighted to announce the traditional arrival of the Shana Ba’Gina Calendar/A Year in the Garden.
If you haven’t yet met this amazing creation, Shana Ba’Gina is a detailed, illustrated calendar and diary created by artist and gatherer Ilana Stein, which is also a monthly guide to home gardening and nature in the Land of Israel. The calendar is chockful of beautifully illustrated, detailed monthly information on growing vegetables, trees and flowers.
The tenth edition of the Shana Ba’Gina Calendar/A Year in the Garden calendar is dedicated to the intelligence of the animals in our midst, and to the wondrous processes taking place in the garden and in nature. Nature’s abundance of blessings and healing powers take the center stage, inviting us to step out into the garden and the wild, observe the astounding beauty that surrounds, and nurture renewed hope together.
The Shana Ba’Gina calendar and other products are produced in an eco-friendly printing process: printed on ecological paper, with soy-based ink, zero-waste packaging, and above all with a great deal of thought and love for nature and the earth. Take a peek at the beautiful charm of Ilana’s calendar right here.
Prices: Calendar: Hanging/tabletop/English Calendar: 82 NIS / Weekly journal – 89 NIS / Perennial calendar – 65 NIS
(reduced prices for quantity purchases)
A beautiful, distinctive gift for your loved ones (and yourselves!) Add these stunning calendars to your order via our order system.
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Time to Celebrate: After ten years (!) that the talented, versatile Ilana has been writing and illustrating this spectacular calendar, the exhibition “10 Years in the Garden – Illustrations, Seasons and Creative Processes” opened last week. You are cordially invited to come, view, and experience this exhibition on display until September 15, on the lovely rooftop of “Muslala” in Jerusalem’s Clal Building. The balcony is open to the public from Sunday to Thursday, between 10:00 AM – 6 PM.
In honor of the exhibition’s Opening ceremony, Nir Amit wrote these words about years, seasons, change and healing:
At the start of the month of Av, a month that in our history abounds with destruction, hatred and pain, I wanted to bring these words to you this week, and hope for good news:
“‘Shana’ – the Hebrew word for Year’ is a wonderful word. Its roots lie in the desire for change (Heb: ‘Shinuy’), for the seasons to change, as well as in the possibility to repeat (Heb: ‘LiShnot’) everything, year after year. Everything turns and returns in a closed circuit, eternal and precise. And everything is open, dynamic, nights grow shorter and longer, trees become bare and then bloom anew.
Shana Ba’Gina – A Year in the Garden captures precisely this moment – the varying and the constant, the endless cycle of all that is destined to pass – the fruit, the blossoms, we humans.
Seemingly, everything is known. Spring will chase winter, in the end summer will come and go, and a knowing wind will blow in Elul. But Ilana’s illustrations and handiwork force us to set times for nature. For indeed, we could continue to live alongside all this wonder, moving adjacent to it from year to year. But each illustration is a reminder to stop the cycle. To change with the outdoors, to integrate within this precise cycle.
This is not simply an invitation to a harmonious life. Botanical ilustrations are not merely beautiful for romantic teenagers notebooks. Faced with a broken reality, against many months of pain’s abyss, Ilana Stein’s plant and animal illustrations are an opportunity to return and believe in the nature of time itself. “How beauty can heal,” wrote David Grossman about our being so very transient. These illustrations accumulated over the past decade of calendars remind us of the beauty of continuation, of the slow process guaranteed each year anew.
An illustration is an action that is bound up with the text, with the concept. Ilana Stein illustrates time and its possibility to be a force that grows and renews. Like the landscape, we, too, need the season.
We fervently hope to once again believe in the healing power of the beauty within nature and growth.
May everyone enjoy a peaceful week. We continue to hope and believe and work for good news to come.
Alon, Bat-Ami, Dror, Einat and the entire Chubeza team
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WHAT’S IN THIS WEEK’S BOXES?
Monday: New Zealand spinach/Indian Malabar spinach/basil, slice of pumpkin/carrots, lettuce, okra/long Thai lubia/edamame, eggplant/red bell peppers, onions, corn, scallions/chives, tomatoes, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes/sweet potatoes
Large box, in addition: Coriander/parsley/dill/nana, butternut squash/ Japanese Amoro pumpkin, potatoes.
FRUIT BOXES: Red grapes, nectarines, red apples/pears/kobo. Large box: Larger quantities of all the above, plus mango.
Wednesday: Coriander/parsley/dill/nana, slice of pumpkin/carrots, lettuce, okra/long Thai lubia/edamame, eggplant/sweet potatoes, red bell or long sweet peppers, onions, scallions/chives, tomatoes, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes
Large box, in addition: New Zealand spinach/Indian Malabar spinach/basil, butternut squash/corn/hot chilly peppers, potatoes.
FRUIT BOXES: Red or green grapes, nectarines, red apples/mango. Large box: Larger quantities of all the above, plus plums/kobo.