Harvest is a busy time of year, with little time to sit around and celebrate anything. But humans being humans there is always time for a party in there somewhere.
Harvesting begins this month and runs through Leaf Fall. Farmers are busy and merchants are busy buying the farmer's wares. So naturally a celebration of a bountiful harvest should occur this time of year. Celebrating the turn of the times from summer to fall, Fall Celebration is held through out Tridon. Food is a large part, of course, with farm wives trying to out cook their neighbors and chefs of Houses and noble Houses doing the same just on a grander scale. Farmers have wheel barrow races, harvesting races, even log cutting races (got to keep warm somehow during the winter). The prizes for farmers is just the bragging rights, but in the larger cities it may mean a better job or in the case of the chefs, it might mean becoming head cook at a noble House or the House itself, for the nobles only want the best in food.
Quilt contests are also a big deal in the rural areas. Women spent the winter before making the best blankets to keep their families warm and some get rather creative. Also carved furniture is often judged and prizes awarded for those men with little to do during the winter and to give ideas of what to do during the winter to come.
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