harvest
The
Shavuot holiday passed, also Yotam's 2nd birthday and the long
summer is ahead.
In
the Kibbutzim Shavuot is mainly celebrated as a harvest holiday. It's the time
when the grains are harvested. We went with the kids to take a look in the
fields near the Kibbutz how the combine harvester worked. At one point the
driver stopped the harvester and my husband and the kids could join him for a
round- which was of course very exciting for them.
Neomi
and Helen searched among the straw for still intact wheat. At home they separated
the grains and tried to make flour with mortar and pestle. It was no big
success though. We would need a grinding stone or mill.
We
also went to a sunflower field. A tractor pulled by accident a fence with him
and fell some sunflowers before they were ready for harvest. The kids picked
out the still soft seeds and ate them. We got permission to take two big
sunflowers home and we kept on snacking the seeds straight from the flower.
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