harvest home

the bringing home of the harvest.

the time of harvesting or of gathering in the harvest.

an English festival celebrated at the close of the harvest.

a song sung as the harvest is brought home.

Origin of harvest home

First recorded in 1565–75

Then, filled with the spirit of thanksgiving, they held the first harvest-home in New England.

Good Stories For Great Holidays |Frances Jenkins Olcott
It is, of course, our first duty to thank God for the fruits of His bounty and love; but the harvest-home should not be forgotten.

Old English Sports |Peter Hampson Ditchfield
The chief part of it relates what befell him on his way to a friends house out of town, to join a party at harvest-home.

A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla |Leigh Hunt
These verses were sometimes said in proposing the health of the farmer at a harvest-home supper.

Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales |David Goodger (goodger@python.org)

Such was the harvest-home in the good old days—joy and delight to both old and young.

Old English Sports |Peter Hampson Ditchfield

harvest home

the bringing in of the harvest

mainly British a harvest supper