- Time of past OR future Camino
- Many, various, and continuing.
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.
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.