Am Ha’Aretz is the University of Maryland’s only Jewish environmental group. Founded in 2009, it has created an organic and sustainable garden on Hillel property and transformed the front yard into a zone of education, community, tranquility, and sustainability. Am Ha’Aretz fosters a culture of environmental education, creativity, and activism through hands-on garden work and by teaching students about Jewish environmentalism, sustainable and healthy living, and social justice. Am Ha’Aretz strives to better its community by making the campus more environmentally friendly and by helping those in need through donating its harvest to the Family Crisis Center.