Planting hope on high ground

They hold chemar, a wooden box filled with barley flour and roasted barley grains, symbolizing a good harvest, and offer each other highland barley wine, their faces beaming with joy and anticipation. Following elders' prayers for a bountiful season, iron plows gently turn the dormant soil, while women carefully sow seeds, planting hope in the fertile land.

Glinting under the sun, shiny iron plowshares work alongside traditional wooden ones, as the hum of the machinery mingles with laughter, a prelude to spring plowing.