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Romania - The Carpathian Mountains

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  • An elderly Romanian peasant holds a bunch of organically grown garlic, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. 90% of vegetable production is grown in small household plots and mainly used for self-consumption and for sale on local markets.
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  • A pair of hand knitted woollen mittens hanging on a wall at a sheepfold in Lunca Ilvei, Romania
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  • A farrier shoes a peasant farmer's horse, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. Horse and carts are still an important form of transport in remote villages in the Carpathian Mountains.
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  • A farrier shoes a peasant farmer's horse, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. Horse and carts are still an important form of transport in remote villages in the Carpathian Mountains.
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  • Sheep cheese in a bowl on a table covered with a plastic flowery tablecloth in a stana (sheepfold), Lunca Ilvei, Romania. Each flock of around 500 sheep is based at a stana or sheepfold, a hut in a clearing with a milking enclosure of hurdles. In Romania wool and meat are seen as by-products and the real purpose of the flock is to produce branza or cheese.
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  • A peasant woman wearing a striped apron (zadie) made from a single width of woven wool with horizontal pink and black stripes and traditional footwear (opinci) worn with felt foot wraps (obiele), Botiza, Maramures, Romania. Traditionally subsistence farmers In Maramures raise their own sheep to provide wool for knitting and weaving clothing.
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  • A woman wearing a fur-edged sheepskin waistcoat at Bogdan Voda market, Maramures, Romania
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  • Two Romanian peasant women with a sheep at the livestock market in Ocna Sugatag in Maramures, Romania. Whereas in most countries sheep are reared for wool and meat, in Romania these are seen as by-products and the real purpose of the flock is to produce branza or cheese.
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  • A peasant farmer holds her hand out to a sheep at Bogdan Voda market, Maramures, Romania. Whereas in most countries sheep are reared for wool and meat, in Romania these are seen as by-products and the real purpose of the flock is to produce branza or cheese.
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  • A man wearing a hand knitted woollen jumper holds a banner at a funeral, Botiza, Maramures, Romania
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  • A plastic bowl of dried beans in a farmhouse window, Viscri, Saxon Transylvania, Romania. 90% of vegetable production is grown in small household plots and mainly used for self-consumption and for sale on local markets.
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  • A peasant farmer wearing a hand knitted woollen cardigan stands with two sheep at Bogdan Voda market, Maramures, Romania. Whereas in most countries sheep are reared for wool and meat, in Romania these are seen as by-products and the real purpose of the flock is to produce branza or cheese.
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  • Portrait of an elderly shepherd wearing a traditional hat and handknitted cardigan with a sheep in the meadows around the village of Poienile Izei, Maramures, Romania
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  • Logs for firewood and a pair of dirty wellies on the doorstep outside a peasant farmer's home in Botiza, Maramures, Romania.
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  • A peasant farmer holds organically grown vegetables for sale at the market in Sighetu Marmatiei, Maramures, Romania. 90% of vegetable production is grown in small household plots and mainly used for self-consumption and for sale on local markets.
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  • A roadside stall selling locally made cheese, sausage and fruit juices on the Rucar pass in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania. Some of the actual produce on this roadside stall is replaced by wooden replicas so they won't spoil in the sun.
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  • An elderly Romanian peasant holds a spindle of wool spun from her own sheep, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. Traditionally subsistence farmers In Maramures raise their own sheep to provide wool for knitting and weaving clothing.
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  • View of Botiza village, Maramures, Romania. In the Romanian Carpathians, the agricultural landscape consists of a diverse mixture of small fields, meadows and orchards situated around villages, interspersed with forest and woodlands.
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  • Snowy winter landscape view of Magura village in the remote Carpathian Mountains, Romania
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  • Romanian peasant Ioana Ungur holds freshly baked bread she has made in her outdoor bread oven, Botiza, Maramures, Romania
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  • Shepherd Simion Dobrin wears a sheepskin cloak and holds 'coaja', a locally made sheep's milk cheese wrapped in birch bark, Valea Urdii, Romania
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  • A peasant women wearing a traditional sheepskin waistcoat and flowery apron holds a ball of black wool, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. Traditionally subsistence farmers in Maramures raise their own sheep to provide wool for knitting and weaving clothing.
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  • A subsistence farmer's hand holding freshly milled maize in Sieu, Maramures, Romania. The farmers bring their products to the village mill and pay the owner in kind with part of the produce.
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  • The agricultural landscape around the village of Botiza, Maramures, Romania. In the Romanian Carpathians, the agricultural landscape consists of a diverse mixture of small fields, meadows and orchards situated around villages, interspersed with forest and woodlands.
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  • Shepherds eat 'mamaliga' at the sheepfold in Botiza, Maramures, Romania. Shepherds live on ‘urda’ a kind of cottage cheese made from whey together with 'mamaliga' or maize mush, made by cooking maize flour with water in a cauldron until it can be turned out into a board as a solid block and sliced like bread.
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