Every kid in our class had something that they enjoyed most of all about the Week Without Walls trip and my favorite cultural and agricultural part was Berber harvesting. Berber harvesting was my favorite part of Berber culture because of how interesting it was. In the Berber culture there is a harvest season for most harvestable foods like cherrys and walnuts. As I said before there is a season for each harvest like cherrys and walnuts. Other places don't really make a big deal out of harvests they just harvest and then they are done but that is not the case for the Berbers. At the end of each harvest the Berbers have a big celebration because each harvest is very important to the Berbers because the harvests can for some families be more then half of their yearly income. For me the most fascinating harvest is the walnut harvest.
The walnut harvest is the most fascinating for me because it is the most important harvest. At the end of the walnut harvest the biggest celebration out of all of the harvests happens. The reason for the walnut harvest being so large is because the walnuts are almost the same as money in the Berber culture. The walnuts are so important that they can be used as currency and can also be traded for other goods such as robes. Walnuts are so valuable that during the walnut harvest families fill up their roofs with thousands of walnuts which will eventully be sold or traded.
Another thing about walnuts that I found interesting was that even if a family plants a walnut tree, the walnuts on that tree don't belong to that family. Anyone can take walnuts from any tree as long as it is during the walnut season.
Walnut harvest is a very important part of Berber culture and I found it to be the most interesting part of Berber culture as well.
