Traditional harvest on 16th and 17th August: come and see farmers harvest their cereal crops by hand!
PROGRAMME:
- we walk to a farm and prepare together the local bread
- afterwards we visit a mill along the banks of the Terner Bach (the brook flowing through Terento): you can watch how grain is ground into flour and listen to the splashing of the wooden water wheels.
- in the afternoom we help the farmers to harvest: 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!
Terento's women farmers pamper you with home-made delicacies.
Join us for the Gastronomic Week “'s Terner Schmelzpfandl” from 15th to 24th October 2010!
=> Photo gallery of harvest