[permaculture-oceania] NEW JORDAN PROJECT

[Geoff Lawton]

NEW JORDAN PROJECT


We are presently in Jordan and are establishing a new NGO "  
Permaculture Jordan " and we have been offer USAID funding for  
$US53,000 to establish a new project here in the Jordan Valley  
sharing bio-diversity of productive crops and tree species that have  
potential but are not yet here.  The work is link with the work of  
other plant researchers who have al;ready linked to other Arabic  
countries and successfully grown and monitored the viability of many  
species.

The trees and shrubs we are supposed to plant in Jordan are as follows

Cereus cactus
Argania spinosa
Black sapote
Yellow pitaya
Sapodilla
Marula
Passionfruit
Pitaya
Cassia
Capers
Acacia
Myrrh
Frankincense

We are supposed to collect some endemic species of Jordan to share.

We will be able to buy a small block of land with an old house we can  
renovate to use as an office and education centre, we will have to  
set up a small nursery site, a small closed nursery for quarantine,  
water, watering system with drip or equivalent, a fence, digital  
camera to record things, will donate an old laptop and we will need  
to get access to about 5000 m2 of land to plant the trees out.  How  
we arrange the plantings and  the other crops we plant etc is up to  
us of course.

If you are interested in helping us extend our work further this is  
an ideal opportunity now that we will be setting up our own base in  
Jordan working directly with local people.

Cheers Geoff and Nadia Lawton


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