As an agricultural designer and practicing Jew, Katie Wachsberger speaks through the lens of ecology on rewilding Judaism, liberatory multi-religiosity, and a fundamental rupture caused by colonization. Katie shares about the retreat she organized in Al Andalus called Decolonizing Judaism and shows how our relationship to land serves as a mirror to the relationship we have with the Divine. In this episode, we hear about Katie’s personal journey from her modern orthodox upbringing in New York to practicing regenerative and decolonial land care across many different ecosystems.

After many years in the agri-tech and agri-business sectors, Katie has remade herself as a regenerative agro-ecologist, diving deep into the complexities surrounding human efforts to restore natural ecosystems, as well as our relationships with them. Katie is an agricultural designer and consultant, an educator and an activist, a journalist and writer, and a practicing Jew. In her work, writing, and trainings, Katie promotes non-violence, deep ecology, and indigenous land-stewardship practices as essential to the paradigm shift away from extraction and separation, necessary to end occupations of all kinds.

Join Katie and Hadar in this beautiful conversation where they weave ecology, spirituality, and society.

To follow Katie's work:

https://www.salsola-group.com/

https://www.instagram.com/kwassta?igsh=anBvNTRxeG42YXQz

https://www.katiewachsberger.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/dana-lp/?viewAsMember=true

***

This podcast is facilitated by Hadar Cohen.

Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching direct experience of God. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who builds decolonial frameworks to worship God. Hadar is an artist weaving the spiritual with the political through the artistic mediums of performance, movement, writing, weaving, sound, and ritual.

To learn more about Hadar, visit hadarcohen.me //@hadarcohen32

To study at her mystical school, check out malchut.one.

Subscribe to her Substack to stay tuned to latest episodes and offerings hadarcohen.substack.com

Hadar's Web is a podcast featuring community conversations on spirituality, healing, justice, and art. Available on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast and more. Check it out at malchut.one.

Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/hadarcohen and by subscribing, rating, and commenting.

Thank you for listening!