I remember the first time I learned about orapi.
I was flirting with a boy from town and he sent me a picture with a message — “find orapi on Wikipedia or Google.”
I was smiling at my phone, blushing, like a fool because receiving this message was akin to a love letter in my mind’s eye.


If you are wondering…our little fling ended long ago but I still go up into the mountain to pick orapi every year.
Orapi is a wild spinach that needs to grow at a minimum altitude of 500 meters above sea level.