Farm tool: planting stick (Spain)

Farm tool: planting stick (Spain)
1980 h. Planting stick. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canarias (Spain) © Museo Artes y Tradiciones Populares-UAM.

Farm tool: planting stick (Spain)

Simple stick tools like these date back a long time. They are similar to the digging sticks still used by Bushwomen. of the increasingly rare hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

In Spain it has been used almost until the present day by women in the Valle de la Orotava for planting corn, for making a hole in the ground where the seeds are scattered without having to crouch because of its length. They use a similar but shorter stick for planting sprouts.

Photo, Clara Sánchez