Ann Davison and Kirsty Brown. Photo: Colin Brown.
Eye - 17 July 2015
From thyme to rhymes
Riding for thyme
Two Friends cycled 160 miles from Bethlehem to Jericho in June.
Before our trusty readers get their maps out to check that distance, Eye should mention that they started from the village of Bethlehem in Wales and ended in Jericho, a suburb of the city of Oxford.
Ann Davison, of Forest of Dean Meeting, and her daughter Kirsty Brown undertook the challenge to raise funds for a thyme-growing project in Um al Kher, South Hebron. In 2014 Ann spent time in the village as an ecumenical accompanier. She told Eye: ‘The project to plant thyme as a cash crop will, hopefully, provide an alternative means of livelihood to a community which is struggling to survive as the neighbouring illegal Israeli settlement encroaches on its traditional pasture land.’
