Remi Welbel
By Remi Welbel
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Food I couldn’t go back to school. So I started a farm to connect with my Jewish values.
This article first appeared on Alma. After being sent home from school, a life of relative COVID-ignorant bliss, I arrived in the ravaging chaos of the pandemic. My mother — the head of infection control and epidemiology for the largest public hospital in Chicago — was working all hours of the day. Whether it was…
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Food I’m a young Jewish farmer. Here’s one way to save the Earth
Appropriately appearing just before the harvest festival of Sukkot, this column marks the beginning of a series on farming and food from Remi and Gavi Welbel, who run Zumwalt Acres, a sustainable Jewish farm in Illinois. Growing up, my sister and I often joked that our father thought asparagus could save the world. Driving along…
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