The Fête des Battages de Saint-Molf keeps agricultural memory visible on the Guérande peninsula, a territory often associated first with salt marshes and coastline. Threshing demonstrations, old tractors and rural know-how remind visitors that inland fields and farming villages are also part of the region’s identity. The event is valuable because it gathers people around practices that once marked the pace of summer work. Machines, tools and gestures become a common language between older memories and younger curiosity. In Saint-Molf, the festival adds a rural counterpoint to the nearby marshland heritage, showing a fuller picture of local life.