LATE BREAKING NEWS!Honey Is On Sale UNTIL JUNE 30! OUR ANNUAL FALL HONEY SALE - IN JUNE? FOR 30 DAYS ONLY! ALL HONEY PRODUCTS ARE ON SALE! No - the grapes are not ripe yet and vineyard is not open, but we thought we would put gallons of honey on sale on our website just like we do at our Sales Stand in September. (No quarts during this s...
Ziaulhaq Ahmadi sits on the floor of his small, one-story house, a brown, mud-walled compound at the end of a dusty alley in Aqa Saray. Surrounded by vineyards, fruit trees, and snow-capped mountains, the village is a half hour’s drive north of Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital. With great gentleness, he taps on what looks like a sealed mud bowl until it cracks open.
Ahmadi, 45, reveals a handful of grapes from inside the mud container. They have been there, he explains, since harvest time, nearly five months ago, and kept for Nowruz, the Persian New Year, which is celebrated on the spring equinox. After all these months, his grapes still look perfect, and are perfectly fresh.
A proud smile forms on his wrinkled face. “We use an ancient preservation technique,” he says.
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