Spring is coming! And so are fresh local products from the farms all over Jordan. It’s becoming very green even here in Amman, not talk about the north. Of course, for someone used to the greenness of Finnish nature, Jordanian greenness seems like the first days of spring in Finland, still delicate, before the summer starts and everything turns to full shades of dark green.
I asked Anas about what made them make this change to organic farming, and the answer was simply: the wide misuse of pesticides in Jordan. In Taybeh they want to produce safe and clean food and spread awareness of the negative side effects of the pesticides. Sometimes while living in Finland I tend to forget, that the restrictions and rules for the use of chemicals in farming are not as strict everywhere. For us, the difference between organic and normal might not always be striking. When you leave Finland and EU, however, the situation is different.
Antoinne feels that the situation of ecological and organic thinking in Jordan reminds Europe 20-30 years ago, and the community is still quite small. But what is special about Jordan is that the traditional ways of using the nature are still alive, unlike in Europe. Though there has been a change to the Western way of living, these traditions are still used. Thus it is really interesting to see what can happen here.
We chatted for a long time, sitting under a shelter that almost got blown away by the wind, and to my surprise, we had another thing in common, besides the interest to ecological living: Khadija had studied in Finland! What a coincidence! The world is full of wonderful chances to meet people who you never thought you’d meet. And for some reason, Amman has been full of these encounters for me.
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