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Respect as we are guest in this great land of these wonderful people i agree 100%It's summertime, and the harvest is ongoing in the fields and forests all around the pilgrim trails.
A few things for pilgrims to keep in mind:
The crops in the fields represent an entire year's labor and potential income for somebody. Please respect their hard work.
Don't pick the sunflowers, no matter how pretty they are.
Do not walk into or across fields of standing grain, and do NOT set up a tent in a grain field unless you want to meet an irate farmer!
Don't smoke or throw your cigarette ends near fields of standing grain.
If you use straw bales for shelter or picnic spots, clean up after yourself.
Don't open bound bales, they may collapse under your weight and bring other bales down on you. Broken bales will not survive transport to the barn.
The grapes in the vineyards and fruit in the orchards are someone's livelihood. If a loaded branch is hanging over the trail, help yourself. Don't take any fruit that requires you to step off the trail to get it.
Don't pick flowers or herbs that are obviously cultivated.
If you listen to music in headphones as you walk, lower the volume enough to hear approaching tractors and farm equipment. The Camino de Santiago is harvester access to hundreds of fields.
If you must relieve yourself, don't do it in front of an exterior gate or doorway, no matter how overgrown or unused it looks. This is the time of year when those doors are opened.
Great hills of grain appear on the threshing floors on the edge of farm towns. Tempting as it is, don't leap or roll around in them (yes, this happens sometimes!) unless you want to meet another irate farmer.
The carrier bag tied to a tree-branch with a sandwich inside and the bottle of beer in the creek are not a gifts from God. They are probably the farmer's lunch. He is plowing in the next field.
This is all no-brainer stuff, I know. Just keep it in mind as you walk these fields of gold.
I met an American pilgrim in Zariquiegui (before Alto del Perdón) who assured me that the "faces" on the sunflowers, made by taking out kernels from the seed-head, had been crafted by the farmers, to cheer up pilgrims.It's summertime, and the harvest is ongoing in the fields and forests all around the pilgrim trails.
A few things for pilgrims to keep in mind:
The crops in the fields represent an entire year's labor and potential income for somebody. Please respect their hard work.
Don't pick the sunflowers, no matter how pretty they are.
Do not walk into or across fields of standing grain, and do NOT set up a tent in a grain field unless you want to meet an irate farmer!
Don't smoke or throw your cigarette ends near fields of standing grain.
If you use straw bales for shelter or picnic spots, clean up after yourself.
Don't open bound bales, they may collapse under your weight and bring other bales down on you. Broken bales will not survive transport to the barn.
The grapes in the vineyards and fruit in the orchards are someone's livelihood. If a loaded branch is hanging over the trail, help yourself. Don't take any fruit that requires you to step off the trail to get it.
Don't pick flowers or herbs that are obviously cultivated.
If you listen to music in headphones as you walk, lower the volume enough to hear approaching tractors and farm equipment. The Camino de Santiago is harvester access to hundreds of fields.
If you must relieve yourself, don't do it in front of an exterior gate or doorway, no matter how overgrown or unused it looks. This is the time of year when those doors are opened.
Great hills of grain appear on the threshing floors on the edge of farm towns. Tempting as it is, don't leap or roll around in them (yes, this happens sometimes!) unless you want to meet another irate farmer.
The carrier bag tied to a tree-branch with a sandwich inside and the bottle of beer in the creek are not a gifts from God. They are probably the farmer's lunch. He is plowing in the next field.
This is all no-brainer stuff, I know. Just keep it in mind as you walk these fields of gold.
I met an American pilgrim in Zariquiegui (before Alto del Perdón) who assured me that the "faces" on the sunflowers, made by taking out kernels from the seed-head, had been crafted by the farmers, to cheer up pilgrims.
Respect as we are guest in this great land of these wonderful people i agree 100%
Yes! This IS ALL no-brainer stuff Rebekah! It is all common knowledge, good manners and good behavior, as well as respect for nature, the people who live there and for other peoples property!!! So WHY mention all this in the first place?
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That could be said of most of the advice posts in the Forum. Threads recommending bells on bicycles reach almost no one who is startling walking pilgrims. Threads on litter and litter pickup reach almost no one who is dropping it, but they do get us thinking about how we can do something to clean up. The topics on pilgrim etiquette have opened long discussions and lectures on the dividing line between selfishness and selflessness, and occasionally reveal that not all people of this Forum are friendly and goodhearted all of the time (clearly that does not apply to me*). On the topic of trampling farmer fields, the Forum may reach some pilgrims who have not thought about the issue. There have been posts about sampling wine grapes and picking fruit, and even an avatar of a defaced sunflower. Spreading awareness may have a positive impact.The kind, friendly and goodhearted people of this Forum, surely DON'T need a lecture in good manners and behavior!
That could be said of most of the advice posts in the Forum. Threads recommending bells on bicycles reach almost no one who is startling walking pilgrims. Threads on litter and litter pickup reach almost no one who is dropping it, but they do get us thinking about how we can do something to clean up. The topics on pilgrim etiquette have opened long discussions and lectures on the dividing line between selfishness and selflessness, and occasionally reveal that not all people of this Forum are friendly and goodhearted all of the time (clearly that does not apply to me*). On the topic of trampling farmer fields, the Forum may reach some pilgrims who have not thought about the issue. There have been posts about sampling wine grapes and picking fruit, and even an avatar of a defaced sunflower. Spreading awareness may have a positive impact.
The written word can be too stark. A strongly stated opinion may not really be a lecture. It may just be a strongly stated opinion!
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I think nobody is friendly and goodhearted ALL the time (besides falcon of course*)
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