A Year On The Field
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In the spotlight: our flax in June

Flax is cultivated by our growers in very different climates and regions this year. It is therefore not surprising that the flax is not...

Year On The Field “Wheat Year” Completion

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

Wheat Harvest and Reaper Technology at Firestone Farm in Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford (USA)

Lazy days of summer start for some farmers only after they finish the most stressful time of their year – grain harvest. Wheat ripeness...

The wheat cultivation cycle at the Lauresham Open-Air Lab (Germany) - a "video diary"

The Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory is focusing on educating the public about the Early Middle Ages and is at the same time a research...

A Year on the Field at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

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...

Looking back - a wheat cultivation cycle at Sterling College (Wendell Berry Farming Program, USA)

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...

Insights from our grower Denis Adam from his "La petite ferme de chanon" (France)

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...

"To take on responsibility in times of crisis" A thought from the field

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...

Let's plant the seeds early!

"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...

Soil preparation at the Wendell Berry Farming Program, Kentucky (USA)

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

Thoughts from the field: A Snowy Reprieve for Winter Wheat

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...

Soil preparation at the Karl Bauer Organic Farm (Germany)

After looking at an early medieval context in relation to soil preparation last week, today's coverage is about jumping into the 21st...

Soil preparation at the Open-Air Laboratory Lauresham (Germany)

After dealing with wheat in general and seeds in particular, we would like to present to you for the next six weeks in our blog...

AIMA lecture on A Year On The Field

Last Monday, Claus Kropp gave a first introductory lecture on our project at the general assembly of AIMA (International Association of...