The folks down at San Pietro in Campo have really outdone themselves this year with the Festa della Trebbiatura. What started out as a small festa in the village to celebrate using the old machinery and tractors to thresh the grain and prepare bales of straw has this year blossomed into a full blown festival of the old traditions once used in this area with everything from bread making, grain preparing and even to playing music on a saw.
Twenty agricultural machines, tractors, balers and trailers, mostly all dating back to pre-war years or early 50's paraded from the Barga Sports Camp through the streets to San Pietro in Campo where a demonstration of threshing and baling using older hand methods and then machines to do the work was put on for the large crowd gathered under the shade of the chestnut trees.
