Help Martha become a Shochetet

I think that those who eat kosher meat should be able to chose meat raised in a sustainable, just and regenerative way, and that the Jews who are raising animals in an ethical way should be empowered to be able to ensure those animals are slaughtered in accordance with the strict standards of Halakha. And that's why I'm asking for help.

My name is Martha Black, and together with my husband Geoffrey I own Avodah Farm in Stockholm, WI where we raise grass-fed beef and pastured laying hens. I have always dreamed of becoming trained and certified as a shochetet, a ritual slaughterer of kosher meat, since the first time I butchered chickens when I was nineteen years old. Farming is a magical process, from planting seeds to new-born calves, but I find there is nothing as awe-inspiring and humbling as the process that turns a live animal into meat we can eat.

 This fall I have the opportunity to turn that dream into reality through an online course offered through the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center Conservative Yeshiva.

This course starts September 3rd 2020 and runs through May, 2021. My expenses include course fees and the expenses for knives, sharpening stones, and the course books. Any money raised beyond those needs will be used to purchase chicks to raise for kosher slaughter, as well as the fencing and shelters to raise them on our pastures.