Monday Book Nook: Greening the Desert

Greening the Desert.

This link is to a video of a remarkable project that took “dead” soil in a discarded area of the desert deemed unable to grow anything and, through permaculture techniques, created a vibrant oasis of fruit-bearing trees, edible vegetables and plants, and a changed climate. In the Torah various of our people are brought to the desert again and again where we are tasked to make our place. In this wonderful way we are shown that even from the most seemingly devastated and desolate of places something new can be born. So, too, with all our life … from the Jordanian desert to our own forgotten inner.