Put aside the role of Santa Claus, Marcello Maio, wearing those of the sower in these times to sprinkle a large plot of soil with copious wheat seeds that are now ready to be threshing. The event is expected to be harvesters with a sickle in hand to prepare wing and covons. As usual in the appointment, they took part in Fuscaldo Lots of children.
The Festa del Grano, represents the anticipation of the event rooted in the territory. The dream of grandfather Marcello It is to involve the new generations to an organic project to rearrange all those possessions that have been lands of bread, until the 70s. All this to recover the different varieties of wheat that were selected over the years and adapted to the land for a punctual production in quantity and quality ‘. An ability that peasant wisdom that over the years is increasingly losing sticks and also impoverishing the territory of a primary resource such as that of wheat. Several children accompanied by the ACLI Association of Contrada Pianetto took part in the initiative. “It was of fundamental importance to show the little ones how the bread comes to the table: from the reap of the wheat, to the grind to the dough”.