The Guest Unit Dream Come True
“My husband Haim and I opened our farm in Moshav Netiv HaGdud in the Jordan Valley in 1981. We grow grapes, figs, dates, and more. Eight years ago, with the support of the Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Agriculture, we opened a visitors’ center on the site, because we had the impression that groups of visitors to the area wanted to meet farmers and to get an idea of what they were growing and cultivating. I give them a tour of the moshav, around the orchards and vineyards. At the visitors’ center we focus on the process of extracting oil from the argan tree, including an explanation on the beneficial properties of this oil. We have three employees working in the tourism side of the business, and others who work on the other branches of the farm—all of them from the area. Our sons and daughters also work with us, even…