What's the story:

Do you want to pull up your pants, remove your shoes and go with the Delta planters to plant rice? The feeling that your feet sink into the mud is very strange.

Every year during the month of June in the entire area of the Delta Ebro, they celebrate the planting of rice in a traditional manner. First they take the "garbes" (groups of rice plants grouped by a string) of the land; they are put on cars with horses and taken to the flooded fields, where they are planted in rows in the mud. For one day the farmers leave the machines at home and re-plant as our grandparents did.

A nice way to relive the traditions!

Timetable:

Sunday June 7, 2009 from 10:30 to 12:30.

Price:

free

The best season:

spring

Lunch tips:

If you would like to picnic, you’ll find a very large leisure area behind the restaurant L’Estany with swings, tables, a small bar and WC’s. But if you want taste the local dishes of the Delta, you must go to the Estany restaurant.

More info:

Meeting point: Mas de la Cuixota (next to Casa de Fusta), of the Encanyissada lake.

Programme:
10:30-11:00 Arrival of planters with the cars
11:30 Distribution of the “garbes” and planting
12:30-14:45 car ride for children and distribution of cake

We recommend to take with you some change of clothes if you want to participate actively in the planting.

Foto: © Mas de la Cuixota