Hi for the wild, it's Ayanna. Today we're bringing you a new series made in collaboration with Olive Odyssey,

a Palestinian olive oil brand that serves as a gateway for Palestinian farmers to connect with people

around the world and tell their story through the foods they produce.

In this series, you'll hear from Ayakawazi Fowar, all of Odyssey's co-founder about plants indigenous to the Palestinian landscape and their deep ties to culture, resistance, and enduring

lifeways. Amid ongoing Israeli occupation and violence against Palestinians, we hope this series serves as a

reminder of not only the lifeblood of Palestinian land, but also the sacredness of land itself

and all the life it holds. Plants are political calls us to consider the way landscapes,

foodways, and the connection to the earth are intertwined with systems

of oppression and movements

of resistance. May this

be an invitation to reflect on the central

role land and the more than human world

plays in movements for justice everywhere.

In this episode, we focus on all of trees.

Thank you for listening.

To be both the lion to die.

Hello and welcome Lisa the Wild.

This is Ayyotter and we are speaking with Ayah Rizali Fowler.

Well, Ayah, thank you so much for joining us today. I'm really so excited to

talk to another plant person and get into some deep conversation with you. Thank you so much for

having me. I'm also very excited for this talk. So I think it would be lovely to start this conversation if you could introduce yourself,

your work, and the land that's around you right now, just to give the listeners a bit of a

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