People from Madaya have been known for their farms that once sloped down toward the valley. About one year ago that picturesque scene has changed because Madaya has been under siege by the Syrian government and their allies. Due to the siege, farmers are no longer able to access their once rolling hillside farms.
“We’ve been farmers from the first day,” says Abu Khalil, nom de guerre of a civil activist and independent citizen-journalist from Madaya. “We used to plant our land. But the siege cut us off from our fields. So we brought boxes and filled them with red soil for planting. We put them on balconies, on verandas of houses, any place where the sun can reach.”
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