By Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir, HAF president
\nDecember 16, 2015<\/p>\n
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We learn as we live. The High Atlas Foundation has been planting seeds in community-managed nurseries since its birth in 2000. Only this year have we come to learn this simple fact: the people\u2019s seeds are equity, and financial institutions grant and loan to the people\u2019s organizations based on that equity.<\/p>\n
Now, get this: we can plant 800,000 fruit seeds in two community-managed nurseries in the marginalized country sides of Oujda and\u00a0Figuig<\/a>\u00a0for a total cost of $60,000. Their equity value after two years, when those seeds mature: one million dollars.<\/p>\n I am writing to inform every reader that your pennies become dollars and your thousands become hundreds of thousands and even millions if we\u00a0invest in seeds<\/a>, which we absolutely must do with the start of the planting season, which begins in January and continues until mid-March 2016.<\/p>\n I have spent recent months crisscrossing this beloved land of Morocco. Perhaps it\u2019s so across the planet, but I feel that Morocco, especially, is awash in endless potential.<\/p>\n