Color of Hay: Maramures 2
Drying the Harvest, Sarbi, Maramures, 2000
Bundles of oats are stacked on poles to dry. After two weeks, a family will thresh their crop by watermill, paying with a portion of their yield.
The work of plowing, planting, harvesting and threshing the oat crop brings less joy than does a wheat or corn crop. That is because villagers consider oats impossible to eat. Every grain will be fed to their animals and will serve only as fatback, milk or the labor of horses.
