Property #3

1. Apartment in the city

2. Beach house on the Atlantic

3. The farm

The farm is only 15 km from town and is comprised of 8 hectares of many kinds of fruits and vegetables. Moustaffa explained that it is a small farm, not like the ones we have in the States, but I think 8 hectares is a substantial plot of land for one family's fruits and vegetables. It was truly a picturesque setting, nestled between large hills. The arid, brown countryside is not what one normally thinks of as beautiful, but I've come to really appreciate the rustic, untamed beauty of this area of Morocco. The only patches of green now are the groves of trees, but the rolling fields hold the promise of bursting into life as soon as the rains come.

One man operates the farm, and there is too much fresh produce for one family to consume, so the rest is sold at the market. We picked eggplant, pomegranates, lemons, and zuchinni. The zucchini is not what we call zucchini, and despite some research into squash types, I cannot seem to find it's name. It resembles a pumpkin, but the shell is mostly green with some yellow-orange spots. It can grow to be quite large-up to 50lbs or so. If anyone knows what we Americans call it, please let me know!

On the farm there are also olive groves, nut trees, and who knows what else. I feel like we only saw a small portion, but I'm sure we'll be going back every now and then.

Moustaffa has owned the farm for 20 years, but I don't think anyone has lived there in that time. There is a small house that we saw, but it looked like it had seen better days. There were also two old wells and a happy babbling brook!