Ready to Reset? Fallow Lab Begins this Week!

Ready to Reset?    I’m excited for this coming Wednesday, 10/22: First FallowLab Study Salon in NYC + online  This first salon is about charting the year ahead  – what are our personal goals for better balance between digital and actual? Why and how do we plan to reclaim an ancient agricultural system as a modern tool for […]

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The ancient Jewish farming practice that could cure your Facebook addiction

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/.premium-1.617234#               The ancient Jewish farming practice that could cure your Facebook addiction A new shmita-themed program in New York called Fallow Lab aims to help get Jews offline. By Judy Maltz | Sep. 23, 2014 | It’s ancient biblical law meets digital detox movement. Or, what does laying […]

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Welcome to FallowLab! Digital Shmita 5775. Rest, Rest, Restore.

Welcome to Fallow Lab  – a year-long journey of exploring better balance between our virtual and actual lives. Inspired by the Jewish Shmita tradition, this journey reinterprets the biblical agricultural practice of a year of release to the land and to the farmer, reapplied for today’s social, economic and digital reality. Our ancestors worked the land, lived its cycles […]

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