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Tony
Beard is a farmer, a broadcaster and an entertainer. Each month
he completes another page of his Dartmoor Diary.
Hullo
there,
We plough the fields and scatter ... it's the
time of year to reap what we sow and give thanks for the harvest:
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Harvest
Time and Festivals of Thanksgiving
September is the month of the year when the joys of the harvest are celebrated.
Town and country unite in Harvest Festivals to say thank you to The Creator
for keeping a promise that while the world continues, seedtime and harvest
will not fail.
Today when modern
technology lets us know what is happening on the other side of the world
and brings vivid pictures of it into our homes, we are aware that harvests
do sometimes fail, especially in some of the under developed countries,
where the population has increased to a point where they are non-sufficient
in food.
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Harvest
time produces materials for the Thatcher to carry out his job
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It appears that we
have not progressed from the days of the Bible where we read of starvation
and famine. We must try and share when we over produce!
The harvest is a wonderful time of the year and it holds many happy memories
for the likes of me, childhood memories that will stay with me as long
as I live:
The sight of fields of corn, having been cut with a binder and the sheaves
stood up in stooks or stitches, (six or eight sheaves to a stitch), picnics
in the harvest fields, be it hay or corn, neighbours helping each other
with these annual tasks.
A good neighbour is
worth his or her weight in gold, always willing to assist each other at
harvest, calving or lambing time, any time when an extra hand was needed.
The fun we had
when only the middle of the field was left to be cut and the rabbits and
sometimes a fox would make a run for the hedge and safety, as we and the
farm dogs tried to catch them.
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