Agricultural Works

Agricultural Works Soil tillage was the fundamental activity.

This section displays tools for the cultivation of local products, machines and agricultural means of transport.

Still in the early 1900s agriculture was the most widespread working activity.

Along the Savena valley almost everyone worked the land. Small owners of tiny farms, farmers in sharecropping, laborers for seasonal jobs. The farmers were accompanied by shepherds, cutters, charcoal burners, mulai, millers. Plowing began in July, as soon as the harvest was finished, and continued for three, four months, every day, until sowing, in September or October.

The path from wheat to bread took a year's hard work. But the woods were the real wealth. Firewood, construction, coal, food for men and animals were obtained from it: chestnuts, acorns, wild fruits, mushrooms, truffles ... But it also offered grazing for cattle and sheep, and shelter for wild animals In the warm season, the cattle grazed in the meadows and in the scrubs, the sheep along the meadow slopes of the mountains. Those who did not have their own wood would gather to collect, with the consent of the owner, what was left of the cut: sticks, shrubs, brambles, flakes of wood and bark ... It was said to go to bachèt, go to bacchetti.

So there was work for everyone.

Also for those artisans who, on a regular basis, went to peasant families equipped with a grinding wheel, masuola, goat, saddle vice, to build or repair tools. In the large room on the ground floor, tools for working the soil, for cultivating and collecting the products at the base of the food of the local population and of the animals bred are displayed.