Harvest festival : The harvest festival generally refers to village festivals during which several exhibitions, games and possibly shows are organized outdoors around the theme of the harvest. Generally, in order to recreate the conditions of the harvest of the last century, several old agricultural machines are set in motion, the participants dress up. Workhorses are honored and can participate in plow races, dragging their plows over one or more lengths of a field. We also regularly find an exhibition of old tractors and old traditional games, in short everything that allows to celebrate the tradition of the harvest in a festive atmosphere such as, for example:
- Harvest festival in Provins (department of Seine-et-Marne in the Île-de-France region).
- Earth festival in Bouzincourt (French commune, located in the department of the Somme, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region).
- Harvest Festival of Saint-Denis-de-Gastines (French commune, located in the Mayenne department in the Pays de la Loire region).
- Harvest Festival The Abbey of Bonne-Espérance is located in the town of Estinnes, in Vellereille-les-Brayeux, in Belgium, 6 km south of Binche.
- Festival of harvests and old trades in Angrie (French commune located in the department of Maine-et-Loire, in the Pays de la Loire region).
The expression also designates:
- Aktion Erntefest ("Harvest Festival" in German), code name for a Nazi operation (roundup of 43.000 Jews in 1943).
- Shavuot in the Jewish tradition (beginning of the wheat harvest season in the rabbinical tradition).