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Looking back at the last Flax Year - Experiences from the Lauresham Open-Air Laboratory (Germany)

The Open-Air Laboratory Lauresham is an archaeological open-air museum which, among other things, deals with the education and research...

Flax to linen at the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation

Background The Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation (CPP) is a living history museum interpreting the lives of English colonists living in...

Wheat - a photo series of Colonial Williamsburg (USA)

Although wheat was not grown this year at Colonial Williamsburg, this series of captioned photos over the previous years can show you the...

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...

Wheat sowing at Carter Historic Farm (Ohio, USA)

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

"Zoom-in" – January on the wheat field at the Open-Air Laboratory Lauresham (Germany)

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

A Year on the Field