The plant chosen for this month of November by the expert in fauna and flora of Puig Campana, Manuel Mayor Rabasa, El Beato, has been the ramàs, a very important plant because it slows down the erosion of the land, holding it down, and because in the old rural communities it had a fundamental role in threshing, an activity that was developed in the threshing floors to separate the grain from the wheat from the straw.
Albaida. Ramàs, albada. Anthyllis cytisoides L.
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My branches are very light and easy to carry. They were widely used as firewood to light fires and to make brooms, with which:
✓ streets, houses, corrals were swept
✓ The ash from the ovens was moved to the sides, before cooking began.
✓ The chaff was removed from the threshing floors once the wheat had been threshedI am a forage plant, widely consumed by domestic livestock, hence the saying "Albaida in the mountains, cattle do not hide", and frequented by bees.
My conservation is highly recommended, as it holds the soil, preventing erosion.

Memoria gráfica. Alicante y Comarca. Diario Información
As a curiosity, I would like to tell you about a very popular and everyday activity in the rural societies that preceded us, in which the ramàs played a main role: threshing
Threshing was an activity that took place on the threshing floors. To this end, plots of land, generally round, were allocated from the limits of urban centres. The first thing that was done, the previous days, was to level and compact the threshing floor with water and straw, popularly known as pallús, in order to prevent it from decomposing during threshing.
The threshing began around 6 or 7 in the morning. At that time the flocks, already broken and forming a roundabout, were thrown on the threshing floor. At 8 in the morning, when the sun rose, the threshing began, which took up the whole day.
The roller, also called rutló, was a cylindrical stone that was hooked with tackle to the animal, usually mule or mule. He went around the vine until he chopped the stems, so that the grain was loose. This activity was carried out by one person, while the rest took care of picking up the straw with the pitchforks or forques, turning it over and shaking it so that the grain fell to the floor of the threshing floor. The straw was then piled into bunches (garbes) and left in the haystack.
The grain and the straw accumulate in the center of the threshing floor with the wooden collector, in Valencian you pull the most. The remains that had not been able to be gathered, were approached to the center with brooms made with the albaida plant or ramàs.
Subsequently, they waited until the afternoon, when a gentle breeze used to blow, to carry out the winnowing, which consisted of lifting the grain and the straw with the shovel, in such a way that the breeze caused the grain to fall to the ground, while the straw and the remains of straw that remained ended up where the breeze deposited them.
Once the grain was winnowed, the grain still had to be cleaned, that is, the ears of corn that are still intermingled with the wheat. To do this, the zaranda or saranda was used, which was the circular utensil that was covered by a not very closed grid, which allowed the wheat to fall to the ground and trap the gransa.

Finally, the garbell, which was the circular utensil, similar to the sieve, but with a grid with smaller holes, was used to finish cleaning the grain, so that it remained on the surface of the wire rack, falling to the ground the dust that remained.
The wheat was ready for storage or sale.
The grain weighing measurements were:
- La Barcella: equivalent to 4 almud, that is, about 16 liters approximately.
- El Albud: equivalent to 4 liters
These were wooden containers, with the appearance of a truncated or headless pyramid.
Terminology:
Era: a space of land generally rounded in shape where the cereals were placed to proceed to thresh them, to separate the straw and the straw from the grain.
Threshing: separating the wheat from the chaff
Parvas: Extension of Bundles (Garbes) in the Era
Tiràs de ma: wooden dustpan
Gransa: ears that are still intermingled with wheat
Sieve: circular utensil covered by a not very
Closed.
Garbell: circular utensil similar to the sieve with a grid with smaller holes.

Popular saying:
"May cold raises wheat, but if it is very cold, neither straw nor wheat"
"From the water of October and the sun of May wheat is born"
"May makes the wheat and August makes the wine"
"Leap year, wheat fits in a basket"
"Between Santa Magdalena (July 22) and Santa Ana (July 26) don't have the parva on the threshing floor"
"A lot of water in the autumn, little wheat and less barley"
"For All Saints' Day (November 1) at the latest you must sow wheat"