This is an event displaying all kinds of vegetables you can find in a garden on the countryside: Pumpkins, lagenaria vulgaris - which is a sort of Cucurbitaceae belonging to the squash family with among others the Calabash - parsnips and much more.
People from different farms in Berry sell their garden products but we were also given the possibility to eat and drink, not least products made from all these varieties of vegetables. We had the chance to watch an exhibition displaying how these vegetables could be used if not eating them!
Welcome:
This is the wonderful orchestra playing music sounding like a mixture of traditional Keltic or French country music and klezmer and they wandered around playing, walking in circles, stopping, dancing, creating a very nice ambiance!
'Nature-' or 'feuilles mortes'.
A plentitude of beautifully arranged vegetables! It's only to carry it home.
These pumpkins (below) are displayed before weighing them in order to decide which one weigh most. The winner weighed 468 kilos!The record in France is however 553 kg and a female cultivator in Ohio, USA, holds the world record of 783 kg! , according to this article in La Nouvelle République.
This is the exhibition hall and below you can see puppets and marionettes made from the vegetables! Fantastically imaginative!
If you need a bed room lamp, a vase or any other decoration, you can find it here.
Talking about decoration: These birds and flowers make a beautiful substitute for the real ones! The man making them told us that it's very hard to 'sculpture' these vegetables, no doubt!
Finally we were demonstrated that music can be performed using any kind of tools, like in this case cucumbers or pumpkins...
...and this is the man responsible for these beautiful pieces of art, demonstrating that it's actually possible to play melodies!
His name is:Patrick Chauvet
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