Badaro Urban Farmers

04/09/2026

04/09/2026

A nice reopening of our Urban Farmers Markets in IRAP Accueil with the immense help of Hana Abi Tarabay and Composting 🌱التسبيخ reminding us about how important is to master the food waste then transform what left to compost.
Thursday is the new day for Urban Farmers Market in Mtaileb-Biyada. 9 to 2

Honoring the women behind the market.

02/09/2026

This Saturday as every Saturday 9am-2pm
هذا السبت، ككل سبت، من الساعة 9 صباحًا حتى 2 بعد الظهر

01/09/2026

We’re back at IRAP Accueil for a new season! 🌿

Same place, same familiar faces, and the same joy of bringing fresh local products directly from our farmers and food producers to the community.

One small change: you can now find us every Thursday, from 9 AM to 2 PM.

📍 IRAP Accueil, Rabweh
🗓 Every Thursday
⏰ 9 AM–2 PM

Come meet the people behind your food, support local producers, and start the season with us. See you at the market! 💚

Lebanon

31/08/2026

Join us at Urban Farmers Market – IRAP Sainte-Anne!

We are reopening for the season on Thursday, 3 September, and will be there every Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

For this second edition of Behind the Market, we are delighted to welcome the Composting 🌱التسبيخ team, who will share practical tips on reducing food waste and turning our leftovers into valuable resources.

Come shop, learn, and take action with us!

📍 IRAP Sainte-Anne
📅 Thursday, 3 September
🕘 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.

29/08/2026

Because behind every  farmers market there is something much heavier: a country that bends… but still refuses to collapse.

A question we ask ourselves every morning of a market : what does it mean to build, when everything around you is breaking?

Yes, this market created connections. Yes, it gave visibility to farmers. Yes, it brought some form of normality.

People come. Farmers drive hours. Families walk through the stalls. Children taste something fresh.
And for a few hours, People trust again.

If we allow ourselves to look a bit further — not one year ahead, but five — then the real question is not about markets.

It is about the region.
What if, in five years, West Asia is no longer defined by fractures, but by reconstruction?

What if the noise of war gives way, slowly, imperfectly, to the work of rebuilding?

Not the kind of rebuilding you see in headlines, contracts, infrastructure, politics, but the quiet one.

The one that happens when: a farmer replants instead of leaving, a family stays instead of fleeing, a community gathers instead of hiding.

In that vision, farmers markets are no longer “resilient initiatives.”

They become the first signs of healing.
Spaces where people who were divided learn again how to stand side by side. Places where dignity is restored not through aid, but through exchange. Moments where food is no longer just survival, but culture, memory, identity.

Because after generations of conflict and inherited hatred, you don’t rebuild peace through speeches.

You rebuild it through repeated, ordinary encounters.
A conversation over tomatoes. A shared taste of bread. A name remembered.

So yes, this celebration of the women behind the market matters because it gives us a glimpse of something we don’t dare to say out loud too often: this region can heal.

The wounds, deep, historical, often unspeakable, can be tended to. Not erased. Not forgotten. But slowly, collectively…healed.

For a region that, one day, might choose life over division, and if that day comes, it won’t start in palaces or negotiations.
It will start exactly where we are standing today:
Between a farmer, a table… and a community that decides, quietly to rebuild

29/08/2026

I rarely speak here as President of LebanonFMC.

But today, I simply want to say thank you.

Thank you, Nuhad Sheikh and Aline Barakat.

Two people who have been by my side since the very beginning of this adventure. Solid as a rock when things get complicated — and they often do — incredibly efficient when solutions need to be found, and, above all, always there when it is time to move forward.

We talk a lot about our markets, our producers, our projects, and what we are trying to build for the future. We talk much less about the people behind the scenes who make all of this possible, week after week.

An organization is not built on ideas and vision alone. It is built with people you can rely on.

Nuhad, Aline, I know what LFMC owes you. And I know what I personally owe you.

Thank you for believing in this adventure from the beginning. And, more importantly, thank you for still being here.

There is still a lot to build.

And we’ll keep building it together.

JC

25/08/2026