PREECEVILLE — Harvest time back in the pioneer era meant neighbours gathering together to help cut grain into sheaves and feed a threshing machine, usually run by a steam engine. Neighbours would go from field to field helping one another bring in the crop. Harvest time was always a season everyone looked forward to, as it was not only a social gathering but also a lot of hard work and fun, commented a senior farmer.

A threshing demonstration near Endeavour, on a field owned by Peter and Bill German, was alive with activity and surrounded by nostalgic memories of a time long gone on Oct. 30.

“This was a great opportunity for the younger generation to help out and learn what threshing time was about,” said Bill German. “The project kicked off last year when the five acres of pasture hay l

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