{"id":1321,"date":"2026-07-01T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2026-01-08T01:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:40:57","slug":"july-in-craco-vecchio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/july-in-craco-vecchio\/","title":{"rendered":"July In Craco Vecchio"},"content":{"rendered":"

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July was another busy,\u00a0but rewarding month for citizens of Craco Vecchio.<\/p>\n

They were occupied with the heavy manual labour of threshing the grain harvested in the prior month and finalizing the cultivation of fave and ceci.<\/p>\n

Threshing grain is the process of separating grains from the stalks of the plant called chaff. In the 1950s, mechanical threshers were introduced in the area although it was difficult to get these machines onto the farms due to a lack of roads and the hilly terrain.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>By today’s standards it was a slow process which has now been replaced by the use self-propelled combines to comb swaths of wheat and spew the separated grain into trucks travelling alongside.<\/p>\n

For the fave and ceci beans, horses were used to trample over the dried crops to separate the legume from the plant. Farmers then relied on the presence of a strong wind to blow away the plant and leave the edible legumes behind.<\/p>\n

Some were dried to preserve them for use during the long winter.<\/p>\n

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Historic Dates in Craco<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n