Published: 28 May 2025
Last updated: 29 May 2025
Wheat and barley are key Biblical crops, the first two of the archetypal "seven species" of the land of Israel.
The cultivation of these plants is etched into the Jewish calendar. Pesach marks the barley harvest, then we count the Omer until the wheat harvest, at the festival of Shavuot.
In this video from our Plants of the Bible series, Australian-turned-Israeli Elly Waller shows us how Neot Kedumim, the Biblical Landscape between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, explores the cultural meaning of these subsistence plants.
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