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Photos of the Day for June 21, 2018

Cycle of the year:  grazing of privately-owned cows.  Кола года:  трыманьне кароў.   St. George’s Day (Jur’je — Юр’е — celebrated on May 6 in the Orthodox Christian calendar, equivalent to April 23 in the old style) was the traditional start date for letting cows out to pasture; see photos of the day for May… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 21, 2018

Photo of the Day for June 18, 2018

Cycle of the year:  carrying a traditional wooden cultivator for spring planting.  Azdamichy 2018. Кола года.  Палеская вясна: традыцыйны маркер.  Аздамічы 2018 г.      

Photos of the Day for June 13, 2018

Cycle of the year:  transplanting cucumber seedlings.  Azdamichy 2018. By mid-April the first batch of forced seedlings is ready for transplanting to the main hothouse.  Transplanting requires close coordination among extended-family members, whose seemingly effortless movements belie the back-breaking nature of the work in the breathless air of the hothouse. Кола года: высадка расады агуркоў. … Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 13, 2018

Photos of the Day for June 12, 2018

Cycle of the year:  readying hothouses to grow cucumbers. Eastern Stolin District in central Polesia has become Belarus’ cucumber capital.  Much of the crop is exported to Russia.  The area is covered in hothouses, ranging from agribusiness-size facilities in Al’shany, which has a statue in honor of the cucumber, to small constructions in many village… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 12, 2018

Photos of the Day for June 11, 2018

Cycle of the year:  transplanting cabbage seedlings.  Tsjerablichy 2018. Once the risk of a late frost is much lower, families take advantage of any spare time in early April for this back-breaking work. Кола года: перасадка капуснай расады.  Цераблічы 2018 г.         Cabbage patch covered in straw.  Капусная расада пакрытая саломай.  

Photos of the Day for October 2, 2017

Horsecarts.  Rubel’ (Rubjel’) 2017. Rubel’, in the middle of central Polesia’s Stolin District, was the largest village in Belarus until the early 1970s.  With about 4,700 inhabitants Rubel’ remains the second largest village in Stolin District; it is renowned not only for the industriousness of its small-holder farmers but also for producing scores of Orthodox… Continue reading Photos of the Day for October 2, 2017