zayaan Khan Indigenous Food Revivalist

‘I’m lucky to have worked with small-scale farming and fishing along the West coast – and it is this coastline where my heart is most free,’ says zayaan. she credits the culminative experiences of the people she has met here, moments shared and surprise encounters with cobras, steenbok and eland, with reminding her of how unique and alive this area is. ‘I love that it is home to millions of species, from spring-flowering bulbs, buzzing insects and fragrant renosterveld and fynbos, to the heat of the land and the icy atlantic – the West coast envelops me every time.’ @zay.k47; zayaankhan.co.za

zayaan Khan Collecting indigenous Khoekhoe (Khoikhoi) edible plants in the yzerfontein area on the west Coast