The Director of Annual Giving at Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston will be a key member of the nine person Institutional Advancement team, reporting to the Associate Head for Institutional Advancement. He/she will develop and implement a comprehensive, donor-centered strategy for the Annual Campaign, working closely with volunteer leadership. Carry a portfolio of major donors, coordinate solicitations for both annual and capital campaigns. Founded in 1961, Schechter is a Jewish day school for children ages 15 months through grade 8. Requirements: Please submit cover letter and resume by Email to: liz.chesarone@ssdsboston.org.
Following dreams can be one of the keys to happiness in life. Following dreams is what brought me to Newton Community Farm six years ago; it’s what led a group of Newton residents to believe that they could start a community farm in Newton.
My family has had a dream for many years of visiting the island kingdom of Tonga in the South Pacific. My wife, Jessica, lived a good deal of her childhood there—her father worked in Tonga for the Peace Corps. Over our 17 years together we’ve often talked of how great it would be to give our kids a taste of her childhood, living a seemingly idyllic life on a tropical island. But Tonga is far away; it’s too expensive to visit over spring break or winter vacation. We’d really have to go for a long time to make it worthwhile. And if we’re going to go all the way to the South Pacific, why not visit New Zealand where Jessica has friends from her time in Tonga, or Australia which, as one friend told me, “is on everyone’s ‘bucket list.’”
It’s quite a dream, but not an easy one for a family with kids in school during the winter, and a farm to run during the summer. But we’re getting older, and our kids are getting older, and we don’t want to let the dream go. What to do? Well, if you happen to have a very smart, hardworking, and completely competent assistant grower working for you; and she happens to have a very smart, hardworking, competent partner who is also a farmer and open to coming to a new farm; and a board of directors that is willing to entertain the importance of dreams, then you take the plunge and ask for a leave of absence. In other professions, a sabbatical.
So it is with a great deal of excitement, as well as a certain degree of trepidation, that I will be leaving the farm next year to live in the South Pacific with my family. Where will we be going? What will we be doing? Our plans are not set yet, other than that we will be leaving sometime after school gets out in December and returning the following August. Yes, we’ll be returning. I don’t want to leave Newton Community Farm for good. I love this farm and this community. I just want to go with my family on a grand adventure.
We’ll be working during our trip, mostly at farms, but at other jobs as well in exchange for our room and board. The South Pacific is the birthplace of permaculture, which many of you have heard me mention before. I’m looking forward to learning more about this comprehensive philosophy on how humans can best inhabit the earth in the places it emerged—in particular, Tasmania, Australia. We’ll visit other parts of Australia as well, both islands of New Zealand, Fiji, of course Tonga, and perhaps Samoa.
So what will happen to the farm while we’re gone? Megan Talley, the aforementioned super assistant, will become the acting farm manager, sharing the position with her partner Joshua Faller. Running the farm on her own for a year will be an important next step in Megan’s professional development and will prepare her for possibly starting her own farm in the near future. As any of you know who have visited the farm over the last two years and worked with Megan, the farm will be in very good hands.
This is truly a dream come true for my family. I’m grateful that everything has come together in a way that will allow us to live our dream and still come back to the farm that has very much, over the last six years, become our home.
Will I blog? I’d like to say that I’ll try, but at this point I don’t even honestly know what a blog is. I’ll certainly be in contact with Megan and our board of directors while I’m gone. Perhaps some of those e-mails will include messages to the entire community. That is, when we have access to e-mail. Should be interesting. It’ll certainly be an adventure.
Apple Share Reminder
I just want to remind everyone that we are selling apple shares in conjunction with Autumn Hills Orchard in Groton, Massachusetts. The share provides a five-pound bag of fresh apples (and possibly other items, but mostly apples) every week from the end of August through the end of October. Apple shares are picked up at Newton Community Farm on Wednesdays from 2 to 7 p.m. Some of the apples are common or traditional varieties; others will be new to lots of people. But they’re all delicious. Shares cost $70 for nine weeks. To enroll, click on the link below, fill out the form, and return it with a check made out to Newton Community Farm by August 24.
Click here for more information and to enroll.
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