The southern side of the Atlas Mountains in Algeria’s desert is turning green! What started as a vision of the civil engineer Mr. Madjid Abdellaziz, has over the past years turned into a wide green oasis, where now fruit trees, vegetables and wheat grow in the Sahara Desert. Even truffles, an exclusive gourmet delicacy in [...]
We had recently published a post on the Neem Tree (The Neem Tree – The Village Pharmacy) and I would like to follow up with this informative video below. The Neem tree has been called “A Tree For Solving Global Problems” by the BOSTID Innovation Program (BOSTID = Board on Science and Technology for International [...]
The Neem Tree (Margosa Tree, bot: Azadirachta indica) grows everywhere across India and it is revered as a sacred tree, as people have always benefitted tremendously by it. The Flowers of the Neem Tree are offered to god in religious rituals and are eaten on the Hindu New Year . The Neem Tree is one [...]
A very informative video about the making of seedballs and how to apply them on degraded lands. The method used has been developed and described by Masanobu Fukuoka.
It is simply astonishing how much a tree cares for his own seeds. Trees are Masters in packaging. Have you ever looked at the seed capsule’s shapes, shades and textures? Have you examined the strength of the materials trees fabricate for the exclusive purpose of packaging their seeds? And every tree has an own design [...]
