The above-ground pipes are pierced with tiny holes to provide precise irrigation of each plant without waste or evaporation of water. The cotton plants, standing high as Sandler's shoulders, had overgrown the pipes, and Sandler was out before sunrise to beat the heat, which by noon would become too intense to work in. A native of Oakland, Sandler graduated from Indian Hills High School in 1991 and earned a degree as a landscape architect from Michigan State University in 1995.
Salt kills plants, and they are growing plants here.
Caren Weingart of Wayne joined the Otzma program in the fall of 1995. At Revivim she and her colleagues worked in the onion fields. Troy is a former Toms River poultry farmer who retired to Lakewood. Equipment for farms, such as a bell-type drinkers for poultry, invented in Israel, was imported for use here, Toshav said. It detects which turkeys do not lay enough so they can be taken out of the system.