Dorsdag in het Boerenbondsmuseum

Separating the wheat from the chaff

Come to the threshing day at the Boerenbondsmuseum on 5 October and discover how grain was threshed before the advent of threshing machines. A lively demonstration of the hard work and conviviality of the past!

•   5 october

•   13:00u tot 17:00u

•   Regular entrance fees

•   Children are also allowed to thresh grain. Butter is made in the manual power dairy.

In August, the corn was removed from the field and laid out to dry on the mite. And on Sunday, October 5, this corn will be threshed in the field and on the threshing heap. The farmers had to work hard to earn an honest living. But to bake that sandwich, grain is needed, which used to be beaten out of the ears with a flail after the harvest. That’s threshing.

Threshing is the process of removing the grain from the ripe ear. Cozy, men among themselves, in a nice rhythm handling the flail alternately. During the threshing day in the Boerenbondsmuseum, volunteers regularly demonstrate manual threshing for the visitors.

It was not until the course of the 20th century that threshing machines were introduced.

The NCB Destructor is also the focus of this day. In the NCB building, you can see that the destructor used to do very sustainable work. From the animals that died on the farm, everything was 100% processed into other materials, such as glue, leather for shoes and jackets, etc. Volunteers will be present in the building this Sunday who can tell you all about it.