Sickle Corbella is the term used in the orchard of Valencia to designate the tool to cut cereals, such as alfalfa, forment, barley, oats, beans, beans, etc., being for excellence the harvesting of wheat and alfalfa the most fundamental activities in the...
Silk worm hatchery Between the 14th and 19th centuries silkworm breeding was an important complementary activity for farming families. This temporary, intensive activity, between the months of March and May, provided complementary income to families. At the end of the...
Capacity measures Once harvests were harvested. In the first half of the 20th century, in spite of the implementation of the decimal metric system, some of the old measures, such as celemin, persisted. The standardization of measurements and the fixing of patterns was...
Know down reed The reeds had many applications in traditional culture, were used in construction, as in the manufacture of musical instruments, to make baskets to make caizizos and dry steps, or silk platforms to raise silkworms, to make rockets… In the field...
Fly trap Before chemical compounds appeared, there were other more rudimentary mechanisms, such as glass bottles for the orange fly.The bottle for the fly or “mosqueta” (‘fly’), is a trap for fruit flies. It has two holes, one at the top, for...
