Souk el Tayeb & Baldati were celebrating "Karaz Hammana", the 1st event of Food & Feast program in Hammana, Sunday the 14th of June 2009.

This event organized by Souk el Tayeb is the first of a series of different similar events around Lebanon which will be focusing each time on promoting a fruit or vegetable or a typical traditional Lebanese dish.

Since Baldati mission is to discover, promote & develop the Lebanese villages & regions, we found ourselves interested in collaborating with sister NGOs & groups as the active Souk el Tayeb team to give a chance to all Lebanese to be involved & active in their regions in order to preserve our patrimony, traditional food and habits in a new modern way.

As Souk el Tayeb did in summer 2008, this summer they are willing to visit different Lebanese villages under Food & Feast program and for the first event in this series, Souk el Tayeb and a large number of producers coming from Rachaya el Wadi as Sheikh Hussein, from Bebnin in the North as Abou Rabih as well as many others from around Lebanon joined Hammana’s citizens in Hammana on Sunday the 14^th of June 2009 to promote “Karaz Hammana”.

Between visiting the old souk, picking the cherries, discovering the taste of all different kinds of cherries and voting for the best cherry stand & cherry picture on www.baldati.com,  the Lebanese and foreigners coming from around Lebanon had the chance to enjoy an adorable sunny day in a very beautiful and known region of Lebanon, learn new things, meet new people & exercising while helping in picking the cherries.

41 citizen from Hammana created their accounts on www.baldati.com and joined their e-community Hammana willing to put pictures, write articles, create discussions and promote Hammana in order to motivate others to visit this special region.

This was our experience with Souk el Tayeb in “Karaz Hammana” and while waiting for the upcoming event in Broumana on the 9^th of July 09 titled “Broumana’s summers” you can check some additional information about “The Cherries” in these 2 articles http://www.baldati.com/news/article.php?articleid=1563, http://www.baldati.com/news/article.php?articleid=1564 as well as some pictures of this event using this link http://www.baldati.com/photos/album.php?id=970.