August is the time to harvest Oats.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 8:51AM
Kathleen Laraia McLaughlin

The Harvest, Sîrbi, 2000

In August, oat fields paint the landscape with golden rectangles. A family must cut their crop before it is fully ripe or the seeds will be lost to the earth. To prepare the stalks for being threshed, they first tie them in bundles.

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