In rural Homs, Syria, the harvest of hard olives offers a deeply personal taste of normalcy. This harvest is viewed by villagers as a taste of home, which has been lost due to nearly 14 years of civil conflict.

In the warm sun, gathering handfuls of hard olives promised a taste of home that residents of a village in the Homs countryside had been missing for nearly 14 years of civil war. <img alt="undefined" src="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/1920x1080+0+0/resize/1920x1080!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ffe%2Fb6%2Fc0595bf94ed79181ff016b9d0377%2Ffarflungpostcard-efeng.jpg" /><p>In the warm sun, gathering handfuls of hard olives promised a taste of home ...