"Whoever drives through the village stops, takes photos." A Belarusian woman shared the history of a century-old tree on her homestead
In the village of Kalodna, Myadel district, a large oak tree grows right on a person's homestead. It takes three people to hug it. The journalist of narachanka.by asked the owner of the homestead, Hunefa Verbitskaya, about the history of this giant.
— I got married in Kalodna in 1966, — says Hunefa Vikentsieŭna. — The oak sapling was already there, but half as thin as it is now. My husband's relative Vanda, who lived across the road, told me about it. Where our barn now stands, in ancient times there was the house of my husband Valik's ancestors. Vanda also grew up there.
Her teenage sister was grazing cows and brought an oak sapling from the field. She planted it near the house. It's hard to say what year this was. Vanda was born in 1903, her sister is older... The sapling grew large. And now look how young it still is, how healthy! Branch to branch! Except that the electricians trimmed the branches from the very bottom so they wouldn't touch the wires.
— How is it living next to such a giant?
— I'm glad it's here. We don't have much trouble with it, only in autumn do we need to rake the leaves. But what beauty! Whoever drives through the village stops, takes photos.
True, for about three years the oak sapling was sick. Some beetles or midges attacked it — there are many of them in the forest and they flew here. In summer, the leaves started falling — small, already yellowed and all gnawed. But the oak gathered its strength and defeated those midges.
My daughter Irachka noticed that many different birds had settled on it. They probably saved the oak sapling. Already last year, the leaves were large and green. And there were many acorns.
— Do you do anything with them?
— I myself do nothing, except that I used to give them to pigs. I would come home on my bike for lunch (I worked in a shop), collect half a bucket and pour it into the trough. But our neighbor, Yuzya Yutsevichava, made coffee from acorns. She dried them, ground them in a mill, probably added something a little — maybe chicory? I don't know, I didn't ask. But it turned out very tasty.
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