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A vida no Douro
Afonso Pereira - (8ºB)
A vida no Douro Vinhateiro contada por quem a conhece bem
Nós, os agricultores no Douro Vinhateiro, recomeçamos o ano agrícola a trabalhar na poda. A seguir à poda vem a “tira das vides”, que é feita pelas mulheres. Passado algum tempo começa a “despompa” que também é feita pelas mulheres. Todo este trabalho é manual e é feito com a ajuda de uma tesoura da poda. Entretanto vem a amêndoa, mas, antes de apanhar a amêndoa, temos de a limpar. Este trabalho já pode ser realizado com máquinas mas antigamente era feito com homens e mulheres, os homens varejavam as amendoeiras com varas e as mulheres agarravam nas lonas para que a amêndoa caísse ali e não no chão. Ao fim da amêndoa começa a vindima, que é feita por homens e mulheres; as mulheres vindimam e os homens acartam os balseiros para o trator, mas antigamente não era bem assim, as mulheres vindimam mas não havia trator nem balseiros e por isso os homens tinham de transportar as uvas para o lagar em grandes cestos vindimeiros. No fim de acabar a vindima faziam uma grande festa. Na pisa das uvas cantavam, dançavam e bebiam a pisar as uvas, todos contentes, porque era a melhor altura do ano. O último trabalho dos agricultores é o trabalha da azeitona, que pode ser feito com máquinas mas é preciso também mulheres para segurar também na lona. Dantes não era assim tão fácil pois era preciso quatro a cinco homens para varejar a azeitona com varas e duas a três mulheres para estender e segurar a lona para a apanhar. Para o seu transporte, eram utilizados também os cestos grandes. Por fim, vinha a limpa das oliveiras que consiste em tirar os ramos partidos e secos para no ano seguinte dar mais frutos. E é assim a vida de um agricultor durante um ano agrícola no Douro Vinhateiro.
Carina Pinto, Diana Anunciação, João Moutinho, Maria de Lurdes - (8ºB)
Alto Douro Wine Region Story
Well, the Alto Douro wine region has a lot of good but also some less good stories.
I'll start with: Schools
Older people started to work from a very young age, because at the time they were not obliged to go to school, at that time they only had up to 4th grade, many of them didn’t even get there because it was very difficult.
The vineyards
In the past of our grandparents, there were no levels nor did they talk about it, it was all smooth, if there were stones? Yes, there were many. But still women and men were working at the harvest.
They cut the grapes and the men carried them in baskets by very steep ramps! If it was difficult and if they succeeded? Yes, it was very difficult, and yes they still suceeded, they got what medicine they had. The landings were a great development because it facilitates agriculture and farmers today, if it weren't for the landings, there would be no way for tractors to operate around the vineyard, they had to use donkeys, horses, males or oxen as in the times of our elderly.
Harvesting was the happiest work of the faimas agriculture. Men and women entered the vineyards with renewed joy, because the work was light, because the vines offer you the delicious delicacy of ripe grapes.
The bunches are cut to the baskets and then transported by a cart drawn by two or more oxen to the mill where the grapes were crushed and then transformed in wine.
Every now and then, angry bees would bury the stinger in the skin of those who stole their sugar reserve, but that was no reason for joy. The hustle and bustle was always great, and there was no fatigue that diminished everyone's enthusiasm.
The vines seemed to be sad afterwards, their leaves already yellowed by the autumn sun and sad for having the grapes taken out, that they have been grown, with so much affection. Their watch was the sun, when the sun rose they had to be at the boss's door and when the sun went down they left work, because they worked from sun to sun.