Stories
Join me on my trip to Jordan
For more than a decade, I’ve wanted to visit Jordan. The Hourani wheat we grow traces its roots to northern Jordan—part of a larger region called the Hauran (Hawrān), stretching into southern Syria and parts of the southern Levant. This place has always felt like a kind of origin story for our work.
Back to Jordan
On our final day in Jordan, we traveled north to an agricultural region near Ajloun, just 25 miles from the Syrian border. We were close to the Hauran region, where our Hourani wheat originates. I carried a quiet hope that we might find someone still growing this remarkable variety—or at least someone who could point us in the right direction.
Follow me to Egypt
There are moments in travel when time seems to fold in on itself. I had one of those moments standing inside the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo, face to face with a loaf of bread.