Calendar

January
  • New Year's colourful cutoms, songs, dances and parades
  • Loom weaving of traditional patterns
February
  • Lambing, newborn lams, goats and cows
  • Loom weaving
  • Dragobete - ancient celebration of love or the Romanian St. Valentine
March
  • Spring garden cleaning
  • Lambing and new-born lambs, goats and cows
  • Planting of root vegetables: potatoe, carrot, onion, garlic, radish, beet
  • Nettle picking and preparation
  • "Call over the village"": ancient custom with traditional dances"
  • Preparation of bee hives for summer
April
  • Sheep wool clipping
  • Orchads and vineyards cleaning
  • Corn seeding
  • Animal and Greens Fair (Poienița -Vlădești)
  • Easter traditional cooking and preparations
May
  • Preparation of traditional remedies from spruce tips
  • Seeding of tomatoes, peppers, beans and eggplants
  • Moving of sheep to sheepfolds in the mountains
  • First scythe mowing, gathering and stacking
  • Animal and Plant Fair (Poienița- Vlădești)"
June
  • Riping of cherries, strawberries and wild beries; preparation of jams and compots
  • Strawberry Fair (next to Costesti)
  • Picking of medicinal plants around the ancient holiday of Drăgaica
  • Second hay mowing, gathering, drying and stacking
  • Collection of acacia honey
July
  • Riping and picking of sour cherries, raspberries and apricots
  • Harvesting of cucumbers, tomatoes, peas, beans, onions and garlic
  • Wheat threshing
  • Linden flowers picking and drying
  • Wood gathering for winter
  • Witness linden honey harvesting
  • Horse Fair (Berevoesti)
August
  • Potato harvesting
  • Riping and picking of peaches, pears, blackberries and cranberries; preparation of compotes and jams
  • Vegetables and tomato sauce canning for winter
  • Church Feast Days in the countryside
September
  • Grape picking and wine making
  • International Roma Fair (Costești)
  • Picking of plums, quinces, apples and walnuts
  • Corn and pumpkin harvesting
  • Sheep return to their homesteads
October
  • Root crops (carrots, celery, beets) and mushrooms harvest
  • Vegetables roasting and canning for winter
  • Garden autumn cleaning
  • Sumedru's fire (ancient custom)
  • Cattle Fair (Poienita, Vladesti)
November
  • Wood choping
  • Tzuica (traditional plum brandy) making
  • Autumn ploughing
December
  • Preparation and cooking of the many Christmas speciliaties
  • Traditional Christmas carols and customs