Jordan Valley Farming

We traveled through Israel's “Land of Milk and Honey”, the fertile Jordan Valley. Crops are now growing in desert climates which would not have been feasible without drip irrigation. The first practical drip irrigation system was developed and patented in 1959 by the Israel Kibbutz Hatzerim in the Israeli Negev desert.
I saw grain elevators, wheat, date plantations and more. The soil appeared reddish, unlike the brown soil farmland I am familiar with. It is in the inheritance of Zebulon.En savoir plus