Added: Jul 9, 2010
From: MgarrKid
Duration: 1:38
Traditional Agriculture and Crafts Festival. 9th July 2010 from 6:00pm - Imgarr Malta www.imgarr.com Travel back in time, right in the pre-industrial Imgarr and witness first hand the life, work and traditions of our forefathers. A Celebration of rural heritage through Arts, Crafts and Trades of old. * Large scale, real life traditional wheat harvesting by hand. 'il-Qiegha'. Threshing and winnowing accuratly re-enacted with several farmers and actors in period costumes, throughout the Festival. * Performed right in the Imgarr valley wheat fields using authentic tools (sickles, grinding stones, etc) as well as Maltsese farm animals; including donkeys, cows, sheep and chickens. * Rural crafts and trades exhibitions including sheep wool weaving, fishnets and wicker baskets. * Imgarr products & delicacies; Olive Oil, Honey, Home Wine, Gbejniet (sheep milk cheeselets), Seasonings & Herbs and a variety of local produce on sale. * Exhibition of an extensive collection of agricultural tools & machinery as well as rural arts & crafts. * Maltese folk singing (Ghana) and other folk themed live performances. * Skewered Pig dinner with fresh vegetables, potatoes and wine, prepared following a traditional rural recipe. An educational and unique event for the whole family, definetly not to be missed. Parking area will be available right near the Festival site. Also public Transport ( Bus No.47) stops right next to the event. Signs throughout Imgarr roads will guide you to Festival; in the fields near Bingemma Road. Updates with more details soon. This is a non-profit event by the Mgarr Youth Group & Mgarr Drama Company supported by the Mgarr Local Council. Harvesters: Jason and Emmanuel Vella
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Rating: 5.0' max='5' min='1' numRaters='8' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#overall ( ratings) Views: 703 Comments: 14
MgarrKid Says:
Jul 9, 2010 - @KultMalta Thank you for your positive comment! Regards
scarface199408 Says:
Jul 9, 2010 - Good job!
JasAlf5959 Says:
Jul 9, 2010 - Well done on this video. I have never seen farmer working in the fields before except on TV. Thanks for sharing. Jasmine
MgarrKid Says:
Jul 9, 2010 - @JasAlf5959 you can watch them tonight, not just two but a lot more, with Maltese farm animals and tools. Maybe you can make one of your beautiful videos on this Festival.
Rhawneld57 Says:
Jul 10, 2010 - This is a really nice video. Allows us to know how hard people worked back in the day before machines were invented. It gives me a wonderful feeling to think that our ansesters have given us such a great gift with previous inventions and inventions of modern today. Thank you for sharing this very lovely Video. Ron!
JasAlf5959 Says:
Jul 10, 2010 - @MgarrKid Thank you once again. We visited the event. Were there early. The farmers were so kind and they asked us parked at his farm, instead. The event was absolutely wonderful. We loved it. Prosit hafna for another successful and very well organized event. Keep up the good work. Jasmine
MgarrKid Says:
Jul 10, 2010 - @JasAlf5959 Thank you for coming Jasmine, I'm sincerely glad you've enjoyed it. I was there too, I would have loved to meet you two, well maybe at the next Lejla Mgarrija, in a month's time! Regards
JasAlf5959 Says:
Jul 10, 2010 - @MgarrKid Thanks to you and the rest involved for hosting such a wonderful event. It was an eye-opener for many. Yes, we would love to meet you too. In fact, we were talking about you and your beautiful videos and wondering if we would happen to bump into each other during our visit. Yes, we would love to visit the forthcoming event - Lejla Mgarrija. Hopefully, we would meet you during our visit. Regards, Jasmine
maltagirl11 Says:
Jul 11, 2010 - Well done on the promo clip, I couldn't attend the event but am sure those who did must have found it very interesting. Keep up your good work :)
karlalana Says:
Jul 14, 2010 - looks like a wonderful traditional festival...Greetings from Cleveland Ohio USA
volpetervo Says:
Jul 17, 2010 - @MgarrKid i visit Malta every year and Mgarr is my favourite village early evening sitting outside il bari with the farmers having a drink is a wonderful way to end the day and i will be doing it again in September this year
volpetervo Says:
Jul 17, 2010 - I visit Malta every year and Mgarr is my favourite village sitting outside il-bari early evening having a drink with the farmers is a wonderful way to close the day we were there last year for the village festa and had a great night we will be back in September this year and doing it all again
Travel3 Says:
Aug 3, 2010 - Excellent video. Many thanks.
. . . . . . . because these video appear directly from youtube.com which we cannot control it.)
KultMalta Says:
Jul 9, 2010 - Beautiful piece of work, really captures the essence of our fathers... thanks!