The lentils of Castelluccio

Italia Slow Tour in the plane of Castelluccio! We meet some people who are harvesting the lentils. The lentil of Castelluccio is a PGI product and is famous as a curative product, high in iron and protein. Harvesting and separating of the lentils from the straw is an hard work still today, how does it work?

 

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