More than 300 participants will join the 10th 'Benvinguts a Pagès La Festa'

With less than a month to go, Benvinguts a Pagès La Festa has so far confirmed more than 300 participants for the big farming open-doors weekend across Catalonia on 4 and 5 October. The tenth edition's programme includes guided visits to around eighty farming and livestock holdings, 40 parallel activities, some eighty rural accommodation providers, eight artisan producers and the support of more than a hundred local-cuisine restaurants across the country.

The guided visits, which let the public rediscover where our food comes from and see first hand the daily life of Catalonia's farmers, must be booked in advance at benvingutsapages.cat and cost €2.50 for people over 15 (free for children and young people). The money goes entirely towards covering part of the costs farmers bear in preparing the visits. The farming open-doors weekend is also a great chance to buy food directly, without intermediaries, and helps build loyalty among new audiences.

Experiences of all kinds

Guided farm visits will again be the main draw of the farming open-doors weekend. In the Terres de l'Ebre, for example, visitors can enter l'Arion's fields in the Montsià, a setting unique in the world with the highest concentration of thousand-year-old olive trees per hectare, tracing the history of Mediterranean culture over the past 2,000 years. Those who travel to theAlt Empordà will have the chance to join a sixth-generation family running a sheep farm in Siurana, while in the Berguedà they will learn about the work of a small holding with 400 beehives in the pre-Pyrenees. Another option is a farm specialising in rabbit breeding in theAlt Urgell, which promotes open outdoor spaces with plant-based feed, or a winery in the Priorat whose vineyards sit between 400 and 700 metres above sea level, producing acidic, excellently ripened grapes.

Everything on offer, through the website

The website benvingutsapages.cat is the reference tool for checking the participants and makes the compulsory advance booking for guided farm visits.