Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from 
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The prompt this week is - Harvest Festivals
It is likely that harvest festivals have existed since humans first created settled agriculture. They began as offerings of thanks to whichever gods a tribe or village worshipped for giving them enough of a harvest to see them through the winter. The rituals might have varied, and Halloween seems to have started as a start-of-winter harvest festival where animals were ritually sacrificed and their meat preserved for the winter. Over time, many of the European harvest festivals became Christianised, and with the growth of urbanisation became more distanced from the land. As a child I remember harvest festivals at the rather suburban school I went to, where we were so disconnected from actual farms that most of us bought in cans of beans and corn on the cob from the green grocers.
Tell me about harvest festivals in your sci-fi or fantasy setting ! Have they retained a close connection to the land ? Are they big state organised affairs, or local celebrations ? What kind of rituals or traditions are observed ? Who organises and presides over them ? What produce is offered, and what happens to the offerings after the festival is over ?
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
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