I was driving in Iraq Al Amir. I approached a mill, a sight I have not seen much in Jordan.

With welcoming tone. He tells me to close my eyes. I close my eyes.

He extends his hand into one sack of wheat, and then grabs from another.

He looks at me, and asks. Which is the one everyone in Jordan eats from?

I, knowing Jordanians in how they ask questions, answer with confidence. The one on the left.

“Correct”, he says with a nod.

Now, which one is from Jordan.

I point to the one on the right.

He says, “exactly”.

The yellow, plump and ripe, is wheat from Jordan. You cannot find this everywhere. The one of the left, brown, dry and shriveled, is found everywhere. This comes all the way from the United States.

Why do we need wheat from across the Atlantic if we grow healthy wheat here?

This took me on a journey around Jordan, learning how agriculture works here. Where does our food come from?

Who are the people behind the food?

And with Amman growing and growing.

How does the future of food look like?

And what are people doing about it?

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