On Saturday, April 6, the monthly meeting for the burgeoning Slow Food Palestine group took place in the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees building in Ramallah. The meeting was attended by men and women, farmers by profession or by hobby, employees, and agricultural workers. For the next two hours, committees were designed and members assigned, short term goals were allotted, and a vigorous debate on what was meant by local organic seeds took place.
“Local seeds aren’t only Palestinian,” said one farmer from the village of Marda. “Local seeds can also mean seeds that are imported and can be replanted for the following years.”