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Matan Israeli, founder of the Muslala nonprofit, at the rooftop garden he manages, November 18, 2025. (Zev Stub/Times of Israel)
November 28, 2025, 7:55 am
Stressed from war and urban congestion, Israelis take to city rooftops to garden
With construction and postwar trauma everywhere, non-profits and communities are mobilizing to create green spaces in unlikely places
By Zev Stub
From 'The Garden' at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art by Yael Moria Studio MA (Credit Daniel Henoch)
May 1, 2025, 3:53 pm
A (fake) tree grows in Tel Aviv’s Museum of Art
‘The Garden’ juxtaposes fake flora and fauna with real trees and vegetation to explore urban nature
By Jessica Steinberg
Volunteers from Taglit-Birthright Israel at Kibbutz Be'eri's temporary residential compound in Kibbutz Hatzerim, southern Israel, March 6, 2025 (Taglit-Birthright Israel)
March 12, 2025, 10:10 am
Birthright Israel volunteers bring greenery to displaced Kibbutz Be’eri’s temporary digs
Some 2,500 people from around the world are helping landscape the compound at Kibbutz Hatzerim, southern Israel, where Be’eri residents are living until their homes are rebuilt
By Sue Surkes
A rendering of what archaeologists believe the sand farm looked like during production some 1,000 years ago. (courtesy Yaakov Shmidov/Israel Antiquities Authority)
April 10, 2023, 3:01 am
Over 1,000 years ago, Caesarea’s coast was likely the birthplace of sand farming
Around 900 CE, a complicated plot-and-berm system used industrial waste to build agricultural fields on sand – launching a completely novel way of raising vegetables
By Melanie Lidman
Geraniums growing in Bioplasmar's biodegradable pots. (Zamir Eldar, Paris, February 5, 2017)
March 7, 2023, 2:34 pm
In breakthrough, Israeli firm learns how to control breakdown speed of compost items
Bioplasmar says it can determine how long its biodegradable plant pots will stay firm on the shelves, before disintegrating when planted into the soil, paving way for other uses
By Sue Surkes
Permaculture and shmitta expert and teacher Talia Schneider (far left) with some students in the garden, before the earth's sabbatical began on Rosh Hashanah 2021. (Courtesy: Talia Schneider)
September 29, 2021, 3:07 pm
Gardeners give land a sabbatical, as composting (and other activities) continue
Shmitta, a year of rest for earth, arrived with Jewish New Year, along with opportunities for learning about planet Earth, say permaculturists
By Jessica Steinberg
Using old surgical masks as plant pots. (Courtesy, Pablo Chercasky, Director of the KKL-JNF Jewish National Fund's Gilat Tree Nursery in southern Israel)
October 27, 2020, 11:36 am
JNF official: Don’t trash used masks, use them to grow plants
Head of KKL JNF Jewish National Fund’s Gilat Tree Nursery in Negev discovers that old surgical masks are perfect for cultivating seeds, seedlings and cuttings
By Sue Surkes
Kulthum the chicken looking guilty after it was discovered where she was hiding all the eggs in Tel Aviv on May 25, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
April 7, 2020, 11:49 am
LISTEN: How to throw off the yoke of supermarkets and produce your own eggs
With the country experiencing an egg shortage before Passover, raising your own fowl could have kept you in steady supply even while cooped up
By Melanie Lidman
Food personality Shaily Lipa shows how to organize the fridge so that there is less wasted food Courtesy Shaily Lipa)
April 1, 2020, 12:26 pm
The coronavirus kitchen: What home cooks create during lockdown
More time plus more people at home is a recipe for culinary innovation. We grill some experts, who dish up some food for thought
By Jessica Steinberg
A page from 'A Year in the Garden' calendar by Ilana Stein, a Bezalel Academy trained illustrator and graphic designer who puts her love for home agriculture on the page. (Courtesy, A Year in the Garden)
November 4, 2018, 10:52 pm
A Gregorian calendar that helps the (Israeli) garden grow
Ilana Stein’s ‘A Year in the Garden’ takes the year by seasons, showing what grows when, and how, and is now in English
By Jessica Steinberg
Avishai Himelfarb, the founder and director of Leshomra, checks a watering system at a school garden in Modiin Ilit on March 22, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
June 11, 2017, 6:21 am
Ultra-Orthodox kids grow a green thumb in ‘mitzvah’ gardens
Leshomra group brings awareness of the environment to determinedly urban Haredi schools and community centers
By Melanie Lidman
The Jerusalem Botanical Gardens' Reut project helps prepare adults with mental illnesses for the workplace. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
May 31, 2017, 11:07 am
In Jerusalem’s Botanical Gardens, it’s sometimes the plants that grow the people
Where stunning flowers from the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Australia flourish amid social activism, research and community outreach
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
GreenWall Israel uses blocks of plants that can be rearranged at will, seen during a tour of the greenhouse on March 23, 2016. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
April 5, 2016, 6:32 am
Tomorrow’s farmers will need ladders as green goes vertical
GreenWall Israel CEO Guy Barness believes vertical gardens are the way to nourish urban societies of the future, and refugees flooding Europe’s cities are the best ones to try out his plan
By Melanie Lidman
This BioBee sterile fly can help minimize the use of poisonous pesticides. (Courtesy BioBee)
March 16, 2016, 5:38 pm
Got a pest problem? Buy some more bugs instead of poison
BioBee, a world leader in biological pesticide solutions for farms, is bringing its tech to the home gardener
By David Shamah
Nursery flowers watered with drip irrigation in Israel. (Martin Fischer/CC/via JTA)
February 6, 2016, 7:51 pm
Israel’s plant nurseries face stiff fines for employing Jews on Shabbat
‘Now it’s our turn,’ fumes owner of garden center as Economy Ministry targets the industry over resting hours law
By ToI Staff
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