Palestinian Grandma

Foraging wild herbs in Palestine 🌿
This is how we were raised.

The grandkids don’t learn from books—they walk the land with the aunties and village women, the real experts. Each one knows the land (Al-ard) like her own hands… what to pick, when to pick it, and how to feed a whole family from it.

We gather Hibiscus, khardal, loof, silq, hindbeh, baqla, khubeiza, hilayoun, zaamtot, purslane, capers, sage, mint, anise, zaatar, chamomile, sorrel… just some of what the land gives, there is always more.

This knowledge isn’t written down. It’s lived. Passed from woman to woman, generation to generation.

And it’s never just for us. We carry it back to elders who can’t go anymore, extended family and our neighbors
so they can still taste the land, still feel connected.

From Tulkarm, this is more than foraging.
This is memory, resilience, and a bond with the land that never leaves us.