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 Cocoa beans

High hopes in Israel for 'super hero' cocoa that survived frontline conditions

By REUTERS
 Mahaz’s farms sit in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,  where fellows are taught skills related to regenerative agriculture and homesteading arts—all in a Jewish context.

How Mahaz brings Jews back to the beauty of Jewish farming and agriculture

By HOWARD BLAS
Two new solar power projects by Enlight Renewable Energy,  generated in the Gaza Envelope, are connected to the national electricity grid.

How 'energy islands' could help Israel build resilience for wartime

By REUTERS
Israeli farmer Elad Katzir walks in his field near the border with the southern Gaza Strip, in Nir Oz, Israel January 11, 2018.

IFCJ and HaShomer HaChadash launch $2 million food security initiative to support Israeli farmers

 International Jewry comes to Israel in wake of Oct.7 to volunteer.

'Duty to come': Diaspora Jews drop their lives to volunteer in Israel

 American students in Israel's Negev on their volunteer mission

American teen volunteers change lives in Israel

By JNF-USA
Milk poured in a glass (illustrative)

Cows can produce more milk if you treat them better, study finds

 LOOKING OUT at the horizon from Chevra  Eco Farm.

Chevra Eco Farm: A green sanctuary in Israel made by immigrants

By BEN BRESKY

Global investors backing Negev, including Bedouin agriculture

 DANIELLE ABRAHAM: ‘The farmers are heroes.’

'In Israel, we have everything we need to save ourselves'

By NERIA BARR
MEMBERS OF Jerusalem’s Kehilat Kol Haneshama, the writer (left) and Joni Catalano-Sherman, volunteer at a strawberry farm.

Supporting Israeli farmers is essential

By LAURA KAM
 Volunteering to harvest produce at farms in Israel's South near the Gaza border.

Israel's spirit of resilience on display at evacuated farms near Gaza

By MAX RICHARDSON
 A researcher stands in an experimental rice field belonging to seed technology firm Kaiima Bio-Agritech near Kfar Tavor in northern Israel.

Israel's hi-tech firms helping tackle the food, agriculture crises

By SHLOMO MAITAL
 Edete young pistachio pollination.

How an Israeli pollination company helped boost California’s pistachio crop

 THE FARM’S storage sheds were burned during the October 7 attack.

Hamas massacre on Gaza border left Israeli farmers on brink of collapse

 Volunteers from the hi-tech company Radcom picking oranges in Moshav Bnei Dror.

Anti-judicial reform protesters help out Israel's farms amid Hamas war

By PATRICIA GOLAN
 Leket Israel volunteers at an Israeli farm.

Israeli food rescue groups are helping farmers survive amid Gaza war

By Elana Sztokman/JTA
 RAIDERS BURNED Shlomo’s farm, including expensive equipment, totaling around NIS 500K in damage.

Gaza war hits Israeli farms: 89% report damage, 96% expect harm