Sunday, April 1, 2018

Global Food and Agriculture Photos April 1, 2018

This roundup of global food, farming, and agricultural photos appears every Sunday on Big Picture Agriculture. ... This week, Getty didn't offer many photos, so this post is short. Happy Easter to all of my readers!! I baked a chess pie lemon tart with a shortbread crust, but will miss having a marshmallow filled chocolate rabbit. Ummm.--k.m.

E.U.
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Bruno Mousset, director of the factory poses with eggs at the LOEUF factory, an egg packaging center belonging to the Fermiers Loue, on March 30, 2018, in La Bazoge, northwestern France. Photo credit: AFP / JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / Getty Images.
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French pastry Chef Claire Heitzler poses with her special collection of rabbits and eggs made for Easter at the Laduree store on March 30, 2018 in Paris, France. Laduree has been a Parisian tea room and pastry shop since 1862. Easter is the most important holiday of Christianity, it commemorates the resurrection of Jesus, on this occasion many French people eat Easter eggs and chocolate animals. Photo credit: Chesnot / Getty Images.
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Visitors look at sugary, colored sculptures of Easter eggs in a display window of famed confectionery Cafe Demel on March 30, 2018 in Vienna, Austria. Christians across the world will be celebrating Easter this weekend. Photo credit: Sean Gallup / Getty Images.
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A stand with tradicional food during the III Medieval Festival at Parque da Vila in Quinta do Conde, outskirts of Lisbon, on March 30, 2018. Quinta do Conde village reenacts the medieval time during the Easter period when its territory was a property of S. Vicente Monastery. Photo credit: NurPhoto / Getty Images.

CUBA
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Armando Reyes sells fruits and vegetables in his private stand in a street of Havana, on March 28, 2018. Cuba's entrepreneurs have flourished since 2011 President Raul Castro's economic reforms and are now hoping improvements will come ahead amid Castro's successor. 'Cuentapropistas' and their employees represent 12% --some 580,000-- of the country's work force. Photo credit: AFP / Yamil LAGE / Getty Images.

RUSSIA
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Ploughing land before sowing crops in a field of Alexei Borovinsky's farm in the village of Khorol. Photo credit: Yuri Smityuk / TASS / Getty Images.
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Workers load oats seeds into a sowing machine in a field of Alexei Borovinsky's farm in the village of Khorol. Photo credit: Yuri Smityuk / TASS / Getty Images.