A typical day at the farm is busy, productive

A typical day at the farm starts at 8am, when staff members arrive in the company transportation.

People are divided into different teams according to their responsibilities.

The first place of action is the packaging centre that is handled by special needs women. The delivery vans arrive as early as 8am, and staff will fill the vans with cartons of vegetables and eggs packed and sealed the previous day. “The delivery vans have to leave early in order to ensure the produce is fresh when they reach the shops,” said Al Hammadi.

Any given day, the harvesting team collects at least 500kgs of vegetables. The plucked vegetables are brought to the packaging centre. It is here where the veggies are sorted according to their quality, then washed, weighed and sealed before moving to separate cartons.

The milking station and cheese factory also work from 8am till 1pm. Goats are milked with electric machines, and the milk is moved to the cheese station where two big drums churn the milk for more than two hours before it is processed into cheese.

“By 10am, milking will be over and the staff starts the clean up,” said Al Hammadi.

Likewise, in the green centre, the staff grows 10 kgs of grass out of wheat every two days, to feed animals. “Before 10am, the grass is collected from the trays, and by 1pm, the staff thoroughly srub and clean the trays of any fungus.

By 3pm, the sweat and toil is over, and buses arrive to drop them back home.