"You shall designate cities for yourselves." We own forty dunam at Sde Trumot and we are opening Jeffersonville. The model is built to be repeated, and what limits it is not the technology and not the will. It is ground. If you have land, represent someone who does, or simply know land that could hold a sanctuary ground — tell us about it.
Because every ground is built off-grid — its own power, its own water, its own food — the land does not have to be developed, serviced, or even particularly good. Most of what a municipality would call a problem, we can build around.
Enough ground that a person can walk out of sight of the next building. A few dunam is a start; more is better. Open field, scrub, woodland, hillside, a failing farm — all workable.
A road or a track a truck can reach. Everything else gets carried in on it, so this is the one thing that is genuinely hard to add later.
Far enough out that the noise stops. Close enough that a family can drive it on a Sunday and a soldier can get there without a plane ticket.
Israel and the United States are where we are now, but the whole point of a repeatable model is that it is not limited to them. If the land is somewhere else, tell us anyway.
No grid connection, no water main, no sewer. Off-grid solar, atmospheric water generation and on-site food are the whole design — land without services is normal for us, not a problem.
Nothing has to exist yet. Shelter is pre-fabricated and installed in weeks. If there are buildings, good — we will use them. If there is nothing at all, that is also fine.
Some people want to donate land outright, and that is a profound gift with a real tax deduction behind it — we are a US 501(c)(3). But it is not the only way, and often not the best one for a family that wants to keep the land in its name.
An outright gift of land to Homa U Migdal Inc., EIN 80-0538832. Appraised, deductible, and permanent.
A long-term lease, at market rate or below, keeps the land yours and in your family's name while it does this work.
A pop-up ground for one summer, with everything carried in and carried out again. The lowest-commitment way to find out whether a site works.
You keep ownership and we build and run the ground together — a joint venture, with the terms written down before anyone breaks ground.
If it is for sale, we would rather hear about it early and at a friendly price than find it on a listing site a year from now.
You do not need to own anything. If you know a site, an estate being settled, a camp that has closed, or a farm nobody is working — tell us where it is.
Only your name, your email and roughly where the land is are required. Everything else helps, but leave blank anything you do not know — we would rather hear from you with half the answers than not hear from you at all.