In October 2021, a field was sown with the baking wheat variety ´Avian´ in the area surrounding the Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory as part...

"A Thought From The Field" on the question of introducing children to the topics of food production and textiles When a few weeks ago the...

Abstract We have exceedingly little historical evidence for crop husbandry practices in Anglo-Saxon and medieval England, prior to the...

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, is a landmark destination that shares 3,000 acres (1214 hectares) of discovery...

The Year On The Field project is more than a simple collaboration and research project. It is also about experiences, impressions and...

The Carter Historic Farm is a Great Depression-era living history farm in Bowling Green, Ohio. They raise livestock and heirloom grains...

Common Flax (Linum usitatissimum) is a very important field crop worldwide and not only provides food (seeds and oil), but also is the...

Malyaj Shrivastava, Contributor for the A Year On the Field project, travelled to the Panna district of Madhya Pradesh (India) last...

To conclude our insights into soil preparation, today we would like to take a closer look at the work carried out at Luisenhof (Linden &...

Denis Adam and his family from “La petite ferme de Chanon” are yet another grower from the project. We are therefore happy to give you...

Growing grain and breeding grain were for a long time inseparable activities. Until the end of the 19th century, grain producers were...

My name is Carol Streefkerk and I was born in the Netherlands. As a child always busy with my pony, the logical consequence was an...

The 3-acre field is located within the farm's 45 tillable acres.The 130-acre historic farm and surrounding Pleasant Valley Rural Historic...

A very personal „Thought from the field“ from Claus Kropp, project coordinator of "The Year On The Field" project, in the light of the...

Abstract What can we learn about cereal farming in early medieval England? While the subject benefits from the emergence a rich written...

In Henry County, Kentucky, the Wendell Berry Farming Program of Sterling College offers a farming curriculum focused on ecological...

I am writing from the Highlands of Scotland, where, unlike oats and barley, owing to the environment, climate, and local farming...

A welcome, winter blast gave us historical farmers in New Jersey, USA, a bit of help this past Saturday, by covering our field of winter...

Focusing on mid 19th century Texas (USA), Barrington Plantation is a living history farm complete with period costumed interpreters using...

In the overview recently published on this website, the aim was to illustrate the different weather conditions in January in the growing...