Traditional harvest on 18th August: come and see farmers harvest their cereal crops by hand!
Barley, oats and wheat stalks are mowed with a scythe. The scythe blade is honed with a whetstone and bevelled with the peen of a hammer. The grain stalks are bundled into sheaves for drying. Finally, the grain is separated from the stalk and chaff by threshing and winnowing.
Potatoes are gathered by hand after a potato plough has broken up the ridges where the tubers grew.
White cabbages, which can be bought raw or pickled (i.e. as sauerkraut), are harvested with a knife.
Turnips are root vegetables and need to be dug up with a special turnip fork or a spade.
Flax is uprooted by hand.
Join in and have a go at traditional farming!
PROGRAMME:
10.00 a.m.: scything of the cereal crops – wetting and peening of the scythe – sheaving of the grain stalks
11.30 a.m.: potato and flax harvests
12.00 a.m.: loading of crops onto a horse-drawn carriage
1.00 p.m.: threshing
2.20 p.m.: winnowing
In the afternoon: tour of the mills in the Terento Valley (30 minutes' walk)
Terento's women farmers pamper you with home-made delicacies such as black polenta, “Speck” (cured and smoked pork flank), jacket potatoes with cheese and butter, “Strauben” (funnel cakes) and “Krapfen” (doughnuts).
Side events:
- Exhibition of agricultural implements
- Baking of bread in an old farm oven
- Musical entertainment by an accordion player
- Tour of the mills in the afternoon
Join us for the Gastronomic Week “'s Terner Schmelzpfandl” from 16th to 25th October 2009!
=> Photo gallery of harvest