• Wild flowers

    Wild Flower Cooking

    The sunshine came down in to our garden before Pesach with plenty dandelions all over part B of the Kalisher Community Garden. So many edible wild flowers – time for a grand feast! And so it was my friends, down came the wonderful master of wild edibles and spread his lovely stories and knowledge to the community. The kids headed out with bowls that were filled in with greens and yellows and the mamas and papas m...
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  • In Gimmel

    Survey Experiences in Gimmel

    I thought to share with you same hilarious things that happened while I conducted an environmental survey for Earth's Promise in the Gimmel neighborhood in Be'er Sheva. One of the questions in the survey was if the environmental situation in Gimmel should be improved. And if yes, how would the respondent like to see it improved. One week I interviewed several people living on the same street and almost all of them...
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  • Dancing in the night

    Festival Ecothiopia

    Last week we celebrated the second Festival Ecothiopia in the Kalisher Community Garden, in the hearth of the Gimmel neighborhood in Be'er Sheva. This unique festival, organized by Earth's Promise in cooperation with the Kalisher Absorption Center, combines urban environmentalism and the Ethiopian culture. An Ethiopian band played live music, accompanied by two dancers dressed in traditional and colorful...
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History

Earth’s Promise/Shvuat ha-Adamah was founded by Isaac Hametz in 2007. During the first year the Kalisher Community Garden for Ethiopian immigrants was inaugurated and cooperation with the Rambam synagogue began. Since 2009 Earth’s Promise has been hosting several JNF groups in the community garden (read more e.g. here&here). In addition to the community garden and the work with the synagogue, Earth’s Promise also focuses on promoting composting. In 2009 Earth’s Promise built a composter in the Gimmel dormitories of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and in 2010 the Compost Network was established. One of the communal projects of Earth’s Promise was the Community Sewing Project that started in 2009.