“Agroecology at La Fattoria: Career Change, Ingenuity, and Self-Sufficiency 🛠️🌱
🚀 Selma and Chadi, self-taught farmers in Morocco, left careers in communication and television to dedicate themselves to agroecology on their farm dedicated to mixed cropping, livestock, and market gardening. Their goals? Producing vegetable baskets for Casablanca, setting up a training center, and developing product processing.
🐌 They are fighting snails with a multi-point strategy to reduce losses (from 15% to 5%), combining physical barriers (copper wires), trap crops (sorghum), and valuing the collected snails as calcium-rich ash used as soil amendment.
🌿 To avoid high equipment costs, they self-built an artisanal vegetable shredder using a plastic barrel and a pump motor to save time and ensure material autonomy.
🌱 They are boosting soil fertility through rotation, companion cropping with cover crops (sorghum, sunflower), and applying free manure obtained from an exchange of services with neighbors.
Check out the portrait of their farm ⬇️