Almancil Producers Market celebrates São Martinho with distribution of nuts

Also on this day, the Producers' Market hosts the exhibition “Scarecrows, the guardians of our gardens and our fruit”

The Almancil Producers Market also celebrates São Martinho and will have free chestnuts distributed to all visitors who pass through this space this morning, November 11th, until 13 pm, in an initiative of the Loulé and of the Parish Council.

Since chestnut is not an endogenous product of the municipality of Loulé, "it is part of many other territories in the country and is well rooted in the celebrations of São Martinho", so this initiative aims to "promote to the public, in particular the many foreign visitors, something truly genuine and part of the Portuguese tradition», he begins by explaining the Loulé autarchy.

Also today, the Producers' Market hosts the exhibition “Scarecrows, the guardians of our gardens and our fruit”.

The exhibition will have dolls made from old clothes and a hat, in many cases filled with rags, straw, tow or other materials, which are placed in the middle of gardens or other plantations, simulating the presence of the human being.

The aim of the scarecrows is to scare off birds and protect crops, but they are, without a doubt, «one of the traditions of the rural world that has lasted through time and will be here “rescued” by the organization of the Producers' Market», stresses the municipality of Loule.

 

 

The Producers' Market, located next to ASCA – Social and Cultural Association of Almancil, which takes place weekly, on Thursdays, is an initiative of the municipality of Loulé, in partnership with the Parish Council, Infraquinta and Infralobo, constituting a differentiated space for the sale of fruit, vegetables and agri-food products.

It is intended for the commercialization of local production by farmers and processors, and contributes to «the feasibility of short agri-food chains and to stimulate the economy of proximity, retain value and population in the territory and simultaneously bring producers closer to consumers, reinforcing the autonomy and sustainability of communities”, concludes the municipality.

 



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