spring-fed
irrigation pond |
olive grove |
almost each home
has a bustan garden of traditional crops |
Atif
with his stunning heritage sheep |
Amani
helps harvest a baladi giant cabbage |
explaining the
three year cropping rotation of legumes, wheat and vegetables,
with generous use of compost. The farmer askes how to control
nematodes. |
baking saj-chubez
|
the women gather
in the afternoon to bake together |
Atif's welcoming
family on their porch |
view from the
porch of the valley and
surrounding urban sprawl on the hills above
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