For over two thousand years, Finns have been familiar with flax cultivation. Many traditions throughout the year were closely related to...

February marks the month in which the Year On The Field Project will start its regular reports and blogposts on Flax (Linum...

The Year On The Field project looks back on a successful first crop year from preparation to processing. We learned about diverse...

To highlight the crop of the year, the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum is growing three cultivars of red wheat in a planter as part of...

As our wheat crop ripens through to the flint stage, it is time to sharpen our sickles and prepare for the harvest. Most (nearly all) of...

We have already reported in one of our previous blogposts about the wheat cultivation of Denis Adam and his family and today we want to...

As part of the experiments on medieval agriculture and the `A Year On The Field" project, also food is produced at the Lauresham Open-Air...

"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...

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

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 &...

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...

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...

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...

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

Most of our growers have already sown their wheat last autumn. Now in January, the fields are in a very different state and in the...