Family farming in Polesia: sorting home-grown strawberries. Tsjerablichy 2016. See photos of the day for March 12, 2020 for an explanation of my view why it is more accurate to call Belarusian homesteaders in villages family farmers rather than “peasants”. Сямейнае фермерства на Палесьсі: адбор трускавак з агароду. Цераблічы 2016 г. У кантэксце працягу беларускамі… Continue reading Photo of the Day for June 30, 2020
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Happy Birthday to Great-Granny Prosja! / З днём народзінаў, бабуля Прося!
Prosja (Eufrasin’nja) Shpakjevich was born January 14, 1918. Today, on her 102nd birthday we send very best wishes for happiness, good health and another successful harvest. Another hundred years! Бабуля Прося нарадзілася 14 студзеня 1918 г. Сёньня віншуем яе з нагоды 102-а дня нараджэньня ды жадаем добрага здароўя, шчасьця й далейшага плёну. Яшчэ сто гадоў!… Continue reading Happy Birthday to Great-Granny Prosja! / З днём народзінаў, бабуля Прося!
Photo of the Day for August 6, 2019
Portraits of Polesia: summer in Azdamichy 2019. The potatoes are growing well; the yards and barns are neat and tidy; the storks are tending to their fledglings (owing to a prolonged dry spell and consequent dearth of frogs in this part of the Pripet Marshes, it has been extremely rare to see more than one… Continue reading Photo of the Day for August 6, 2019
Photo of the Day for May 19, 2019
Apple blossoms and Vjera and Vasil”s newly-planted potato plot, Tsjerablichy 2019. Яблыневы колер над нядаўна пасаджанай бульбы ў агародзе дзеда Васіля й цёткі Веры, Цераблічы 2019 г.
Photo of the Day for September 28, 2018
Light in August: scything the garden after gathering the harvest. Azdamichy 2018. Сьвятло ў жніўні: кашэньне агароду пасьля збору ўраджая. Аздамічы 2018 г.
Photos of the Day for June 14, 2018
Cycle of the year: plowing the potato patch. Varsyn’ 2018. The potato is central to the Belarusian diet and, with periods of war, deprivation and destruction seared into the nation’s memory, to maintaining village household reserves of food. Many household plots and plots arbitrarily allocated by the local collective farm are too small to make… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 14, 2018
Photos of the Day for September 8, 2017
Light in August. Tsjerablichy 2017. Сьвятло ў жніўні. Цераблічы 2017 г. Granny Prosja (99) after digging potatoes in the garden plot. Бабуля Прося (99) пасьля збору бульбы з агароду. A basket of potatoes straight from the garden patch. Бульба з агароду.