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Natural Building Chicken Coop We are currently building a chicken coop from local recycled materials, including concrete tiles, dirt, and sandbags. We need as many hands as possible to help complete the structure. If you are interested in joining us for a group work day, please let us know your June - July 2011 availability!  Murad shaping cloth bags filled with damp dirt, a similar texture to wet sand ....................................................................................................................................... .......... Selling our Produce The Marda Permaculture Farm site oversees a combination of micro-enterprises to contribute to the local economy and provide financial sustainability for the project. These enterprises include: Chickens: The project will raise and breed chickens, being able to sell eggs, chicks, and compost from the manure. Organic Produce and Fruit Sales: We will sell organic produce and fruit at costs below those of out-of-town producers. Seedling sales: Growing and selling seedlings from the Farm's greenhouse will encourage locals to purchase plants as locally as possible. ....................................................................................................................................... ..........  A recycled tire garden for the Marda Kindergarten, designed by Marda's director Murad Alkufash |
Permaculture Design Certification Course The Marda Permaculture Farm provides the only two-week Permaculture Design course in the West Bank for interested agricultural professionals and producers, resulting in a PDC certification. These courses will be taught by world-class Permaculture Instructors skilled in dryland permaculture design. Past instructors have included Geoff and Nadia Lawton of the Permaculture Design Institute in Australia. The course, taught in both English and Arabic, provides participants with a broad range of knowledge around integrating sustainable, home scale or larger food production systems. *An upcoming PDC is being planned for early December 2011. Click here for rates and more information!
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Permaculture Gardens The Marda Farm site demonstrates a high-yielding, diverse, and practical model for small scale farm production, using a wide variety of permaculture principles applicable to local growers from small farmers to homeowners. The site's demonstration of a variety of permaculture techniques provide a platform for our current project to design home-scale gardens for 10 families in Marda. The techniques we will utilize include zoning, planting in guilds, vertical planting, orchard design, grape trellising, composting, rainwater catchment, natural building, chicken cultivation and use for fertilization of soil, vermiculture (worm farming), and beekeeping, among much else. ....................................................................................................................................................
Home-Scale Beekeeping The Marda Farm, equipped with bees, will establish home-scale beekeeping for 5 of Marda's lower-income families, and teach them how to maintain beekeeping. The production of honey will provide a source of income, and free available honey for Marda families. |
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