Greening the Desert
2007
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“They laughed and said it couldn't be done.”
Permaculture expert Geoff Lawton describes how he and a team of volunteers grew an oasis in arid salty lowland despite extremely high temperatures and minimal irrigation. The site is the lowest dryland expanse on Earth: a plain in Jordan two kilometres northeast of the Dead Sea and 400 metres below sea level.