Shira Kamm: Farm All-Star
Apparently, serious Jews are allowed to work at non-explicitly Jewish farms. My friend Shira has started Wild Goose Garden recently and just got featured in the big Philadelphia newspaper.
For an economics major, Shira Kamm is handy with a shovel or a hoe. And she’s cozy behind the wheel of a truck or a tractor.
But she does tire of questions about how she manages that 12-foot truck, assumptions that she must be gay, and unwanted advice from guys.
Such is the lot of the female farmer.
Kamm, 30, just signed on to lease land from a retired couple in Glen Mills to start her own farm: Wild Goose Garden, on four acres near Cheyney University.
And that puts her among a new breed of city slickers - urbanite devotees of the Do-It-Yourself culture, committed to sustainability and ready to put their jeans to good use.
Goodluck with the 2008 season!
There is a British family (the Kadoories) who made their fortune farming pigs. They’re favorite saying was “we know everything about the pig, except how it tastes.”
—Annie · March 27th, 2008 at 11:47 am
[...] tip to ZT at Jewschool for this story, a friend of the family Shira Kamm starts her own farm, joining the ranks of so many [...]
—The Jew and the Carrot » Blog Archive » Rosie the Riveter, meet Shira the Farmer · March 29th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Hey ZT!
Just wanted to say hello. It is fun, when your friends have blogs. Or, when your friends have hogs. There were hogs on the last farm where I worked. But I have to say, I am much happier working with veggies and chickens. Just keepin’ it kosher, you know what I mean? Anyway, what makes you think I am a “serious” Jew? Don’t you think I am more like an irreverent and goofy Jew?
Hope you are having fun in DC, being a DIY city slicker.
Your pal,
Shira
—Shira Kamm · April 6th, 2008 at 1:29 am