HARVEST DELIGHT
Indian harvest of memories
Gather with us to celebrate!
Music, food, games, and other merriment!
- Wear a costume
- Paint a pumpkin
- Get your face painted
- Guess the weight of the giant pumpkin
- Bring your favorite fruits for a juice
- Be a worker at our jam and pickle workshop
And do many more.....
FUN FOR THE THE WHOLE FAMILY!
Harvest fall in India
India is a country full of festivals, songs, dances and more. The most popular festival that is regularly celebrated in India is the harvest festival. This festival is celebrated throughout the whole country in different ways according to the tradition of the local people. In Kerela, it is known as 'Onam', in Tamil Nadu, 'Pongal' or 'Thai Pongal', in Punjab, Haryana, and Uttarkhand, 'Baisakhi', in Assam, 'Bihu', in North India, 'Lohri' and in Andhra Pradash, Bihar, and Uttar Pradesh it is known as 'Sankaranthi'. There are a lot more lists of harvests but lets get started with one!!
Harvesting
Harvesting tea is dangerous and hard work, usually performed by ladies. They climb in the hilly estates between the plants, and have to deal the whole day with weather and snakes as well as with their foremen (or as in this case forewomen).
Sometimes the leaves are simply cut, but for finer qualities the tea leaves are manually plucked, as to be seen here. A plant may give up to 3.000 leaves per year. That sounds to be quite a lot, but the leaves are dried and processed in a tea factory. So all that leaves from one plant may give finally just around 500 gramms of tea.
The Munnar area is one of the oldest and largest tea estate areas in South India.
Sometimes the leaves are simply cut, but for finer qualities the tea leaves are manually plucked, as to be seen here. A plant may give up to 3.000 leaves per year. That sounds to be quite a lot, but the leaves are dried and processed in a tea factory. So all that leaves from one plant may give finally just around 500 gramms of tea.
The Munnar area is one of the oldest and largest tea estate areas in South India.
Dances celebrated during harvest season
Since the Hindu dharma is not a religion, but a way of life, various agricultural operation are associated with rituals and festivals. Dancing ia a part of the ritual or of the utsava. Right from the time of preparing the field for sowing seeds to the end of harvesting, during each stage of agricultural operations, various kinds of dances are performed throughout India.
Traditional food eaten during the harvest festival
Food is important part of every Indian festival celebrations. A new metal or earthen pot is filled with milk and set to boil. When the milk is boiled, newly harvested rice, sugarcane and turmeric is added. The neck of the pot is tied with tender turmeric leaves. First prepared is offered to Surya Devta then served to others on fresh Banana leaves.
THEREFORE COME AND JOIN US...WE'LL HAVE A SMASHING TIME TOGETHER AS IT IS ALWAYS SAID,"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted..."
We hope to see you on the 4th of September, 2013!