Farmers Used Trash to Grow Crops in Barren Sand 1000 Years ago

Farmers Used Trash to Grow Crops in Barren Sand 1000 Years ago

One Thousand Years ago, People Along Israel's Mediterranean Coast Dug Deeply Enclosed plots in the sand in the sand, filled them with 80,000 tonnes of trash and used the fertile soil soils for fried for ps that would otherwise fail on such Harsh ground.

This represents the oldest-known, large-scale plot-the-barm system that allows crop-road in sand, putting it among Multiple, Less Clearly Dated Sits Accounts Across the Globe. It might even be the origin of such oasis-like agricultural sites in deserts, some of which still exist today, says Joel roskin at bar-laan university in israel.

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