Yigal - Zion is all of the above. An irony of the Zionist urge to ‘make the desert bloom’ is that intensive farming has badly damaged Israel’s soil, water and environment. The ecological value of the ‘Land’ seems to have been overlooked for the sake of greater production and technological ‘advances’. In my view, organic farming helps to marry Judaism, Zionism by protecting the country’s scarce natural resources.

PS I’d love to visit your farm when I make aliya next month.