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Tal Ya trays make water from dew

When I wrote this article years ago I was excited about small ideas that could improve agriculture. But there is a big but: Tal Ya trays are made from a non-renewable resource: plastic. Plastic leaches into the soil and eventually groundwater.

Growing An African Garden Market in Niger

The continent of Africa evokes emotion: on one hand there is the impressive landscape, African tribal cultures attached to their roots, and the massive...

Coffee grounds into energy

You know that great smell that tickles your nose when you walk into a coffee shop?  The wonderful aromatic smell of roasting beans?  Well, if you are a resident of Safed, Israel - where the Elite coffee factory is located - that sweet smell is currently mingled with the harsh odor of the shale oil used to power the factory.  Thus destroying the great scent.

How to Make Your Own Ricotta

Ricotta is a summer cheese. And as the weather warms up, Jewish people start to think about the Hebrew holiday of Shavuot  - the...

6 ways to use your etrog

Just after the Hebrew holiday of Sukkot Jewish people start planning what to do with the ritual fruit called an etrog. It is one of the four species used in the holiday. It is a wonderful smelling fruit that can be put to use in marvellous and creative ways.

Pomegranate-nut salad recipe

  Many of us are rushing this month, crossing things off lists though simultaneously putting new ones on, trying to get ready for Rosh Hashanah....

A Recipe for Pea Pod Soup

Shelled those garden peas? Now you have a soup you can make from the unused pea pods.

Organic coffee in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv, for those who haven't had the pleasure of visiting the city, is a city of coffee drinkers and cafes. (Some would say bums and people who don't work in the middle of the day... but we say coffee drinkers and cafes.) It is not unusual to step out in the middle of a work day and spot people happily sitting out on sidewalk cafes drinking some form of coffee drink.

How to Keep Carrots Crispy for Weeks – A Sustainable Guide

Have you ever found that your carrots become limp and rot after just a few days, no matter how you store them? Instead of letting them go to waste, try this simple, sustainable method to keep them fresh for weeks—even up to a month!

Sandor “Sandorkraut” Katz’s Wild Fermentation, a Review

“Social Change is another form of fermentation. Ideas ferment, as they spread and mutate and inspire movements for change," Sandor Katz.  I sat down to...

Small-scale farming goes big

Green Prophet recently reported on the growing popularity of organic food in Israel, and the trend towards small farms who are delivering straight to...

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