Lammas: Celebrating the Wiccan Festival of First Harvest
One of my favorite parts of fall are harvest festivals! I never associated it with any religion though, it was more like a necessity...the crops need to be harvested and it takes people! Why not celebrate too? XD
Anyways, we always had harvest festivals when I was growing up, like a school function, in late September/October. Some people tried to replace Halloween as a harvest festival celebration, (mostly churches) but I had none of that, to me they had to be very different things. The festivals mostly tended to be mini-carnivals, with games and prizes, and there were always hay bales, scare crows, corn stalks, and pumpkins. And face paintings. :D And, just after the corn is harvested, the corn mazes always open up too! I also liked harvest festivals hosted at pumpkin farms, because it means pumpkins can be bought, which means the start of pumpkin-related foods, which tend to only last through Thanksgiving, and then you have to wait a whole year to see any of it again. Ah, childhood.
I also like this time of year, because there are tons of farms around that will let you come and pick your own fruits, like you mentioned. My mom and I actually went and picked blueberries before I moved a couple weeks ago. :)
Ember, Jul 29, 2012
