Sharjah hotel Coral Beach Resort grows and serves its own vegetables – The National

Sharjah hotel Coral Beach Resort grows and serves its own vegetables – The National

While local farms are gaining in popularity with the UAE’s finest restaurants and pickiest chefs (who would import nearly every ingredient but a few years ago), one Sharjah hotel is taking baby steps in harvesting its own crops and then integrating each freshly produced lot into its daily menu.

Coralganic, as the miniature farm is known, was started on Earth Day this April and is the brainchild of Iftekhar Hamdani, area general manager of Coral Beach Resort and Bahi Ajman, both hotels owned by Hospitality Management Holding.

A harvest day is like a day of fortune