flowers growth
generates cash flow
in an arid land
If you never understood why saffron is so valuable until traveling to Srinagar and realize how punishing the task of extraction is, how long the farmers must wait to harvest their crocuses during a couple of fleeting weeks, how little they earn from the few kilograms dried saffron yields for each family at the close of the harvesting season.
silky red treads
harvest of crocuses
prized like goldVast crocus fields tipping off the horizon are required to produce such a small amount of saffron that it feels like plucking precious diamonds. As symbolic of hardship and beauty that Kashmir is, the growing of saffron illustrates the perplexing grace of a world, where citizens soothe the spiritual wounds of war, by serving visitors cups of spicy tea.
call it pure gold
produced instead of
flower capsules
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