The rural food festival at the
villages of Mate Yehuda Regional
Council is
about home-cooked meals, small wineries and breweries. Some
people just open their home and serve food in their garden. The wineries and
breweries which lack visitor center open their doors wine/beer bottles. The
Regional Council provides a list of the people participating in the
festival and the special events taking place during this time.
We first visited
the Farmer's market in Tzora village. The charm we found in this festival is
the fact of it still being not very commercial, and thus preserving the
authentic atmosphere. This village is also the home for the Samson brewery. The
brewery was opened around three years ago and making homemade unfiltered beer.
From there we made our way to
the Agur winery; a local winery which produces around
nearly 30,000 bottles of four types of wine, and using their own harvest of the
vineyard located nearby.