To get this started here's a picture from EXACTLY one year ago. Nuts, mainly chestnuts and hazelnuts, are a major source of income in Zaqatala, especially in Car village. Every year in the fall people will take off time from work to spend the day gathering nuts in their yards and orchards to sell either themselves or to a middle man who will sell them in the bazaar. for hazelnuts you can gather the nuts off the ground and by shaking the branches of the small tress, but chestnuts are more of a process. After getting the ones that have fallen on their own you climb up into the tree using a ladder and hit the upper branches with a long pole to knock the remaining nuts down. People have been doing this for generations in Car, but in recent years trees have been dying due to the spread of Chestnut blight in Azerbaijan. I have a friend and fellow PCV who has been working on holding back the spread of the disease, something which I'll talk about in future post.
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