Family peat cutting

Until the beginning of the last century, families on the plateau used peat as fuel to heat their homes, as the region was not very heavily wooded at the time. To do this, they dug ditches in an area of peat to drain the water from it. Then they would remove pieces of peat in the form of briquettes and let them dry. In bad weather, they put these briquettes on the fire as we would use wood today.