Initiated in 2006 by permaculturist Murad Alkhufash, the Marda Permaculture Farm is a working farm and demonstration site for permaculture principles, techniques and strategies. Based in the community of Marda, the project promotes food security, health, self-reliance and Palestinian empowerment. ...Cherry and olive trees, corn and saffron, & a mulched bed of newly planted climbing and crawling edibles lined with drip irrigation... |
Through modeling the practicalities of water
harvesting and conservation, energy conservation, and home-scale
garden production with readily available and locally-appropriate
materials, Marda Farm is one of the few innovative production farms of its kind in the West Bank and the Middle East. Murad in the greenhouse ffertilizing beans, onions, tomatoes, & peppers with organic chille pepper water |