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1. La Finca Agro-Ecology Farm

   2023-01-03 12:34 pm Comments Off on La Finca Agro-Ecology Farm

   La Finca Agro-Ecology farm was founded in Morocco in 2021.

   The coronavirus pandemic made local food production urgent and necessary, and La Finca emerged with the aim to achieve food sovereignty. The farm aims to showcase a model of resilient agriculture that is environmentally sound, economically viable and easily replicable within the community. This helps overcome the water, soil and poverty issues in Africa.

   Its vision of regenerative agriculture puts emphasis on soil restoration, water management, erosion control, whole systems design, seed sovereignty, permaculture, training and capacity building.

   Its vision is coming to life:

   • It has planted over a thousand trees and hundreds of different species of perennial plants to hold soil, create shade, sequester carbon and provide fruit, medicinal herbs, vegetables, fodder and biomass.
   • It has renovated the existing house on the farm and made it more sustainable by creating a closed water cycle by recycling grey and black water into a waste-water treatment wetland. Rainwater is harvested off of the farm’s buildings, and used for irrigation.
   • It has produced 40 tons of compost using local manure and biomass to grow nutrient-dense vegetables and healthy trees. It is mapping local endemic flora, and collecting ancient knowledge of its uses from the community, to preserve it and be able to include it in diet and medicine.
   • La Finca is also saving seeds and sourcing drought resistant heritage seeds from across Morocco.

2. Marrakesh Organics

   2017-03-20 5:24 pm Comments Off on Marrakesh Organics

   Marrakesh Organics is an Organic Olive farm and Ecological training center in the Ourika Valley, near Marrakesh.

   The project aims to tackle what we feel are the major issues of our times, Environmental health, Human health and intercultural understanding.

   We are transforming a damaged arid landscape into a lush and abundant ecosystem, a space that promotes sustainable living, produces high quality, beyond organic products and through our programs & workshops, inspires many people to do the same.

   The Farm is also a research site where important observations and successful experiments are documented and open sourced for the worldwide community and shared in special courses.