The Greening the Desert project

combines sustainability, culture, and community through various initiatives:

- Regenerative practices and local agriculture

- Palm Oasis Restaurant & Center: Date-inspired cuisine and café. Circular system. 

- Educational exhibits and workshops about greening the desert

- Date tree adoption program for homes & offices 

- Holistic Oasis Office program: adopting a piece of desert. 

- Epic Leadership Retreat integration. An 8 day training transformation program for CEO's. Consciousness, Timemanagement. Biophilics in the office. Mental wellbeing. Corporate culture. Menu. 

 

Together, these elements aim to transform the desert into a thriving, eco-friendly oasis while celebrating the region's heritage. 

 

Palm Oasis Restaurant 

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Palm Oasis café is a Date Fruit - Inspired multiple function Cafe

Great menu's. A cozy café Bedouin inspired ambiance:

serving a variety of dishes and beverages made from dates, allowing customers to enjoy the delicious taste and health benefits of dates in a welcoming environment. See menu and gallery below. 

 

Greening the Desert Initiative:

By incorporating the Date Fruit Restaurant & Center, the initiative contributes to the efforts to cultivate a greener, more sustainable desert environment

Date-inspired Cuisine:

It features a wide array of innovative and delicious dishes, showcasing the versatility of dates in both raw and vegan cuisine.

Examples include smoothies, brownies, cheesecakes, and traditional Bedouin-inspired fare. 

Circular 

The seeds:

  • Planted in the desert 
  • Planted in pots for education, shop & gift 
  • Used for date seed coffee
  • Date seed oil

The date trees branches:

  • Traditional basket weaving workshops 

Shop:

  • Oils, coffees, gift packages with dates, pasties from dates, palm trees for homes, office and gift

Menu of the Palm Oasis Restaurant 

Cool drinks

served calmly cool 

  1. Date milkshake. Traditional flavours with cardamom and coconut milk
  2. Date milkshake with vanilla & cacao
  3. Date milkshake with walnuts and cinnamon.
  4. Pineapple Coconut & energy boosting superfoods
  5. Watermelon, sparkling water, vanilla, stevia 
  6. Mixed fruits of the season, stevia 
  7. Orange, spirulina, stevia
  8. Orange, coconut milk, spirulina, cayenne, stevia

Waters

  1. Water vortex, sun energised, repatterened
  2. Water detox w/ activated charcoal & MSM
  3. Coconut water
  4. Coconut water & vanilla
  5. Coconut water, cherry & stevia 
  6. Sparkling water, lime, stevia 
  7. Sparkling water, mandarin, stevia
  8. Sparkling water, mint, Stevia

Smoothies or Smoothie Bowls

  1. Dates, banana, green super food mix, vanilla, stevia  
  2. Dates, banana, cacao, green super food mix, stevia
  3. Dates, banana, berries, guarana, stevia
  4. Dates, banana, pineapple, coconut milk, guarana
  5. Dates, avocado, cacao, vanilla
  6. Dates, mango, coconut milk, stevia
  7. Banana, pineapple, mango, berries
  8. Avocado, coconut milk, orange juice, stevia

Additional: green Superfoods mix  

Warm drinks

  1. Date seed coffee tradition with cardamom 
  2. Date seed coffee vanilla 
  3. Chai w/ coconut- or oatmilk, vanilla & stevia  
  4. Cacao, carob, walnut milk, 7 Mushroom mix & Stevia 
  5. Cacao Orange essential oil & Stevia
  6. Arab coffee low roasted beans and old school filtering, cardamom 
  7. Mushroom coffee (link)
  8. Lion's mane mushroom & Brazil coffee (link)

Herbal tea's 

  1. Verbena
  2. Mint
  3. Jiao Gu Lan
  4. Fruit mix
  5. Rooibos
  6. Rooibos vanilla
  7. Flower mix
  8. Chamomile 

Mocktails

  1. Sunrise: orange juice, pomegranate granate, Guarana, stevia 
  2. Moonlight: sparkling water, blue spirulina, lime
  3. Energy flow: pineapple, guarana, cayenne pepper 
  4. Jade: pineapple, spirulina
  5. Emerald: white grape juice, blue spirulina
  6. Purple: berry juice, guarana
  7. Blue: blue grapejuice, berry powder
  8. Flower: grape fruit, elderberry, rose extract 

Foods

  1. Hummus: spicy, beetroot, curry or classic & Salad Crackers
  2. Ful Medames. Classic middle east beanstew
  3. Rainbow salad in a jar. With tahini or olive oil dressing. Mixed colours vegetables.
  4. Soup: Red lentils Sweet potato Cayenne pepper 
  5. Soup: Tomato Sweet potato Basil Garlic 
  6. Soup: Chickpea Coconut milk Curry 
  7. Soup: Sweet potato Curry  
  8. Zuchetti: spaghetti from zucchini, basil-walnut pesto
  9. Zuchetti: spaghetti from zucchini, basil-walnut pesto & double tomato pesto

Sweets 

  1. Date energy truffles: walnuts, dates, cacao, spirulina, hemp, raisins, coconut oil,  guarana vanilla
  2. Date cheesecake: (lime or cacao or berries): walnuts, dates, coconut oil, lemon zest, vanilla 
  3. Date brownie: walnuts, dates, cacao, green Superfoods mix, vanilla
  4. Date vanilla cookie: hazelnuts, coconut oil, dates, vanilla  
  5. Dates & trail mix: raisins, hemp, cashews
  6. Dates & trail mix: activated walnuts, goji berries, cacao nibs, raisins 
  7. Dates filled with walnuts and cashews 
  8. Dates filled with vanilla coconut cream   

Date Energy bars

  1. Activated walnuts, dates, lemon zest, vanilla 
  2. Activated walnuts, dates, cacao, orange, vanilla
  3. Activated walnuts, dates, cacao, cherry, vanilla

Protein shakes

  • Sun warrior classic
  • Sun warrior cacao
  • Sun warrior probiotic
  • Sun warrior coco
  • Sun warrior berries
  • Sun warrior hemp
  • Anima mundi adaptogen cacao 
  • Hulled hemp, activated walnuts, cacao, vanilla

Snacks box 15 pieces

What’s in the box:

Bars

  • 1 x Chocolate Walnut Bar
  • 1 x Raspberry Almond Bar
  • 1 x Caramel Hazelnut Bar
  • 1 x Licorice Almond Bar

Crumbles

  • 1 x No-Bake Chocolate Crumble
  • 1 x No-Bake Raspberry Crumble
  • 1 x No-Bake White Chocolate Blueberry Crumble
  • 1 x No-Bake Apple Crumble
  • 1 x No-Bake Banana M*lk Chocolate Crumble

Truffles

  • 1 x Swedish Chocolate Ball
  • 1 x Swedish Cinnamon Bun Ball
  • 1 x Lemon Cake Ball

Cookies

  • 1 x No-Bake Coconut M*lk Chocolate Cookie
  • 1 x No-Bake Cornflake White Chocolate Cookie
  • 1 x No-Bake Hazelnut Dark Chocolate Cookie

Regererative:

The project promotes environmental stewardship by supporting local agriculture and implementing sustainable practices, such as replanting date palms and minimizing waste

  • Educational Component:

The date fruit project offers opportunities for guests to learn about date cultivation, sustainability, and healthy eating through interactive experiences and workshops

  • Educational Date growing Exhibits:

Informative displays and exhibits showcasing the history, cultivation, and uses of dates, promoting knowledge and appreciation for the integral role dates play in the region's culture and heritage.

  • Date Gift Packages:

Shop experience 

A selection of beautifully curated gift packages featuring date products and related items, perfect for sharing the unique flavors and cultural significance of dates with family & friends

  • Workshop Venue:

A hub for hosting workshops, events, and meetings related to the Date Project, fostering collaboration, learning, and engagement among participants.

  • Sustainable Date Tree Adoption:

A program that connects businesses with opportunities to adopt and cultivate date palms in a sustainable manner, enhancing community involvement and environmental stewardship

Community Support:

The project encourages collaboration with local people, busineses, companies, growers, and government linked organizations, fostering a sense of community

and shared responsibility for the environment

  • Holistic Oasis Office program:

adopting a piece of desert and employ multiple functions, greening it with the office. A positive footprint, employees camaraderie, de-stress, growing food for office canteen, VIP guests, events, family days, education on growing trees & food

It makes 100 liters of water a day.

It’s called Warka Water tower

and it’s a kind of tree that takes away the thirst. It produces water in Ethiopia, a region of the world where drought is widespread and where the serious food crisis hit in 2016, according to ONU report

During a trip to Ethiopia Architect* Arturo Vittori, was deeply shocked to see women and children walking for miles under the suffocating heat, with the sole aim of procuring drinking water, transported with heavy jerrycans to the villages, in a sort of ritual for survival, which is constantly repeated, day after day, for a lifetime.

The Architect Arturo Vittori, with his collaborator, Andreas Vogler, decided to find a solution to this problem. Eventually, after multiple levels of testing and re-designing, they conceptualised a tower which would use atmospheric water vapour to produce water.

They named it Warka Water tower. These Warka Water towers mimic the shape of beetles and are gigantic 30 feet tall towers which can collect ± 25 gallons of drinkable water every day by harvesting the water vapor in the atmosphere