Agency Details:

Kayam Farm At The Pearlstone Center

Kayam Farm at Pearlstone strives to embody and inspire social and ecological responsibility by transforming the community through hands-on Jewish agricultural education.

Description:
Kayam is hosted by the Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center, that is used by the non-profit, government and general faith based communities for meetings, conferences, retreats and other educational and spiritual purposes. We are situated on a picturesque 164 acre site with over 3 miles of trails in rural Reisterstown, Maryland.

Kayam Farm organically grows healthy food
for the Pearlstone Center and greater Baltimore
community, while offering both Jewish and nonsectarian
hands-on agricultural and environmental
education. We hope to reconnect people with
their food and with the earth, inspiring social and
ecological responsibility in the Jewish community,
greater Baltimore, and beyond. We will be providing 36 families with food this coming season, as well as attending a weekly local farmers market. In addition, we donate 10% of our produce to the Hannah More Shelter for women and families in Reisterstown.

Kayam Farm’s 5 acres cultivates organically
grown vegetables, culinary & medicinal herbs, fruit
orchards, vineyards, berry & asparagus patches,
and small grains. The Kayam program also includes
interpretive trails, wildlife habitat and ecosystem
restoration areas, and a plethora of environmental
education programs.

History:
Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center began operations in 2001 and is an independent
non-profit agency of THE ASSOCIATED. 2007 marked the beginning of Kayam Farm & Environmental Education Center and every year in continues to add to its programing, grow and develop.

Contact people:

Tiferet Sassona, Volunteer Coordinator, (phone), (email) Dick Goldman, General Manager, (phone), (email) Jakir Manela, Program Director, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (410) 429-4723

Address:

5425 Mt. Gilead Road Reisterstown, MD 21136 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.pearlstonecenter.org/kayam.html

Directions:

Take the Baltimore beltway I-695 to I-795. Follow I-795 to the end and continue toward Hanover Pike (MD state road 30). Turn left at 2nd light onto Hanover Pike for 2.9 miles and turn left onto Mt. Gilead Road. At the stop sign continue straight and follow the signs for Pearlstone. Pearlstone parking lot will be the first right-hand turn.   Nearest Metro/Subway Stop: Owings Mills   Nearest Bus Stop: Bus # 56

Last updated on November 18, 2009