"Christmas: Sponsor a Bee" - Lavender Garden

The Farm

Lavender Garden is preserving and developing farmlands in northern Jordan, with organic, sustainable, permaculture farming. Located next to a dam, accessing free water, our farm is a hectare of English Lavender and Lavender Grosso. Organic, permaculture farming is excellent for the long-term health of the land, and also for the bio-diversity of the natural habitat. We do not use any pesticides, and we use worm tea produced by vermicomposting as our fertiliser.

We want to bring sustainable employment to the neighbouring Bedouin village where unemployment is high. We have already employed one man who was unemployed before, as supervisor to our farm, and we hope to employ others. Our lavender is still young, but growing well for nearly a year now!

Sponsor a Bee

Quoting Friends of the Earth: "Bees are vital to a healthy environment and healthy economy. They are perfectly adapted to pollinate, helping plants grow, breed and produce food.

But bees are in trouble. There's growing public and political concern at bee decline across the world. This decline is caused by a combination of stresses – from loss of habitat and food sources to exposure to pesticides and the effects of climate breakdown.

More than ever before, we need to recognise the importance of bees to nature and to our lives. And we need to turn that into action to ensure they don't just survive but thrive."

We want to buy 10 bee hives in January which will produce lavender honey. These hives will then be reproducing, and the number of hives should double each year. Honey is a delicacy in Jordan, and lavender honey is currently only available by importing it. Could you help us and sponsor a bee?

Future Plans 

We have a full dam, and we want to grow more crops in the land around us. As we do this we can employ more people. We also hope to create cosmetic products such as lavender soap, moisturiser, lavender bags, and food products such as lavender tea to employ local women.

The Vision

Rasmi grew up in the village of Breiga where Lavender Garden is based. He had a vision many years ago to turn the fields around Breiga purple with lavender, and that has been the inspiration for Lavender Garden. He knew lavender is traditionally from the Mediterranean, and felt that God was giving him a vision for the land. Rasmi asked Ruth to marry him, in Spring, amongst the wild flowers of the fields of Breiga, which have now become famous. After this, they decided to help preserve the beauty of Breiga, buying land close to where they got engaged, and starting a farm together.  The Bedouin with the English flower, symbolic of their marriage! These three photos show: Rasmi, a couple of days after the first posts had been put in place for the fence for the farm; Rasmi and Ruth; and a map to show where Ar Ramtha is in Jordan, where the farm is close to.