Mayor István Tilcsik began his welcome speech with an old saying: wheat is life, where wheat grows, there is white bread, where bread is put on the table, poverty is unknown there.

According to the words of the village leader, we have reached the most important moment of the summer agricultural work, the beginning of the harvest on Peter-Pál day. These are the days when the tiresome work of the farmer comes to an end, and with a good harvest, a thorough harvest, he can lay the foundation for his family's annual security.

This is a symbolic period, at this time the sun is at its highest, the day is the longest and the night is the shortest - he said, and then he recalled the harvest conditions of the grandparents' era. These were trying days, but they forged families, communities, and members of the harvest gang together

he added.

According to his words, with mechanization, the traditions of harvesting were slowly forgotten. Not only the work, but also the related habits. That is why the idea of ​​the Harvest Festival was born 31 years ago in Sarud, and since then the festival has been helping to preserve this old beautiful tradition.

After the speech, parish priest István Eperjes blessed the harvest table, and after drawing lots, the teams started to tidy up, and the women started to pick the bunches.

When asked by our portal, Flórián Várkonyi, about the mowing of the highway racers, he recalled the old days, when he himself experienced the difficulties of harvesting as a child in the sixties. At that time, mechanization and tea-making had already begun, but individual farmers still harvested with scythes on their own small plots.

We went out at dawn until the heat came in, and we harvested. In the afternoon, of course, there was rest, we also took the horses to drink. After lunch, when the heat subsided, we continued harvesting

- said the farmer, who still keeps horses and has teeth, at the event.

Source: Heol

Featured image: The idea of ​​the Harvest Festival was born in Sarud 31 years ago, and the festival has been helping to preserve this old beautiful tradition ever since / Márk Huszár/Heves County Newspaper