Amir Elron, the guru behind Agrocity, a company for edible gardens and urban ecological systems, took us on a wonderful day in his hometown in Hod Hasharon.

Mosinzon agricultural highschool within it, Israel’s only agro-ecology studies, are an active research model for practical sustainability education. The school uses advanced growing methods in raised beds, simple and ingenious irrigation and rainwater or air-conditioning water harvesting, and create complex productive ecological systems in small spaces. Driving positive energies to the heart, eyes, nose and hands, and also tasty and organic. Re-purposed basketball courts, walls, roofs and hidden corners were revived. the place shows how agricultural education, which sounds ancient in an age of numerous mobile applications catering cats, can get an updated and even futuristic twist.

After mosinzon we went to the constructed wetlands, ecological biomimicked natural biological system. The park receives purified waste water from the city’s water treatment plant and filters them before they reach the recovering Yarkon river. The river’s ecological system is yet to return to its past condition, prior to the arrival of industrialized and destructive modernism. However, garbage mountains turning into parks and animal species flourishing in numbers point on a positive trend.

Later we envied Amir’s edible permaculture garden, drowned in huge garden cress bushes and realized that baked Kale chips is really tasty. We promoted Amir’s aquaponic system construction, aimed probably to also grow food for the neighbours, and sat for a festive meal. Dorit’s magic hands, perfected at just-picked vegetables, created a superb vegan dinner,

Thanks Amir and Dorit you’re something!