Village settlers.

When a village had grown so big that it produced more food than it needed, some people could give up farming and do other jobs.Roads could be improved so that people from the village could trade with people in places further away.

 The people grow crops in terraced fields, built like steps on the slopes of the surrounding hills. The main crops grown are alfalfa and wheat for making bread. There are also many date palms and some black mulberry trees, grown for their fruits. The water that is not used by the villagers flows down into the wadi at the edge of Balad Sayt. The wadi flows in a deep valley for about 7 kilometres until it joins up with the Wadi

Bani Auf downstream. This wadi has cut deep gorges in the mountain slopes.The houses in Ba lad Sayt are close together and clustered around a ruined fort. Balad Sayt is so far away from other towns and cities that the people of the village have to produce most of their own food. As well as the crops from the fields, and the mulberries and the dates from the trees, they also collect wild foods during the summer months. These include the sweet, purple-coloured fruits of the bhoot tree and honey from the wild bees that live in the caves in the mountains.