Reconstruction of an Authentic Spelt Harvest in the Eastern Rhodopes

A reconstruction of an authentic spelt harvest is planned in Tepavitza house in Rabovo, Municipality of Stambolovo on 22 and 23 July 2011 during the Eastern Rhodopes Bread Festival. The bread festival is a newborn tradition which took place for the first time in 2010.

Producers and consumers of organic cereals, fans of the Bulgarian traditions and especially those who have a special appreciation for spelt – the oldest cereal in Bulgaria, meet during the bread festival.

The farmer Petko Angelov is the initiator of spelt event. He started with just a hand full of spelt and presently owns 48 acres. His production procedure and his spelt are now in the process of being certified as an ecoproduct.

See the program of the event:

22^nd of July

Accommodation in a guest house “Tepavitza” and  preparing to wear the costumes and tools for harvest and threshing.

Taking yeast for the bread (from wild hops) – a traditional old technology.

Dinner with kapama and tiganichki from spelt with honey and home-made yoghurt.

23^rd of July

10.30 – Introduction

11.00 – Travelling to the field and beginning harvest, preparing sheaves and threshing-time.

13.00 – Giving back threshing, preparing threshing-board and fitting up the horse for thresh out.

13.30 - cleaning the grain from the chaff.

14.00 – grinding on millstone

14.30 – working up and baking the bread

15.00 – taking the bread from the oven and tasting

15.30 – Press-conference for the media

16.00 – Discussion “Spelt – from ancient time till now – the food of the future”