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They are days of green and yellow with the spring of rapeseed in the fields of Vall d’en Bas, in La Garrotxa, as can be seen in this series of photographs in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia.
Rapeseed, which is used to produce fodder and biodiesel, can be a very profitable crop if there is a good harvest, although this year it is threatened by drought.
The mechanization of work in the field has made the process of harvesting rapeseed faster and more productive.
In addition, in spring, the rapeseed fields create a green and yellow fantasy in the landscape, giving it a lot of color and generating life among the insects.
La Vall d’en Bas is surrounded by mountain ranges and rugged ridges such as Cabrera dels Llancers, Freixaneda or Puigsacalm, as well as meadows and beech, holm and oak forests.
Furrowed by a multitude of streams and streams that pour their waters into the Fluvià River, it has one of the most fertile soils in all of Catalonia, as can be seen in these images, even in times of great drought.
The Vall d’en Bas also has a rich historical heritage. Sant Miquel de Castelló, for example, is a hermitage located on a buttress of the Serrat de Sant Miquel within the Sierra de Llancers, in the last ridges of the northeast of Collsacabra.
