🌾🔥 LAMMAS — 1 AUGUST 🔥🌾
Today is Lammas, an ancient festival marking the beginning of the harvest season.
The name comes from the Old English “hlāfmæsse”, meaning “loaf mass” — traditionally a time when the first bread made from the new harvest's wheat was blessed and offered in thanks.
Long before supermarkets and neatly packaged loaves, the harvest was quite literally a matter of survival. Lammas was a time to give thanks for the grain, celebrate the first fruits of the land and recognise the hard work of farmers and communities.
There was something wonderfully simple about it: the fields had provided, and people stopped to say thank you.
Lammas was traditionally celebrated around 1 August, sitting roughly halfway between the summer solstice and autumn equinox. It marked that subtle turning point in the year — summer was still very much here, but the first signs of autumn were beginning to appear.
The days would slowly start drawing in, the first crops were being gathered, and the cycle of the seasons moved on.
🌾 First fruits.
🍞 First loaf.
☀️ Gratitude for the harvest.
Perhaps in today's world, when food arrives on supermarket shelves without us giving much thought to where it came from, Lammas is worth remembering.
So today, spare a thought for the land, the farmers, the growers and everyone whose work puts food on our tables.
Happy Lammas. 🌾
And if you've got a loaf of bread handy today... perhaps give it a little more respect than usual. 😂🍞
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