This plot of land radiated outward from the village and was beyond the deep ditch that surrounded their settlement, a construction that provided security, drainage, and a means of distributing water to the growing number of people who occupied Ankara. Alongside the wheat field, other women were tilling the ground for gira, pomolo, and yero.
gira, pomoloyeroAnother patch of farmland was dedicated to green leafy herbs that the people had picked wild for many generations but which they now knew how to grow from shoots taken from the plants that grew promiscuously in the trees beyond Ankara. These plants were showing signs of life before the emmer wheat plantings, since the shoots had a head start over seeds, and their lustrous bright green color turned the pale brown soil into a colorful dis
