Here's a 6-minute short movie on Mohammad Ali Neimeh, the man who cultivates Lebanon's wild herb and who's a thyme passionate. Mohammad, also known as Abou Kassem, used to collect thyme from the fields and quite often get exposed to snipping and shelling by the Israeli Army during their occupation of South Lebanon. That's where he decided to take the seeds and plant them elsewhere. It took time, patience and dedication but he pulled it…

Beirut Planting Roofs is the latest experiment by Ziad Abichaker, The "Garbage King", where he's teaming up with the American University of Beirut to install vertical planters made out of Eco-board panels on a rooftop and use waste material to produce an edible crop. In simpler terms, here's what they did: - Use 12 vertical planting structures made from eco-boards, the equivalent of 10,600 plastic bags. - Used 1200 Kg of mature compost obtained from…